In recent years, digital technologies are profoundly renewing the ways of defining, collecting and promoting tangible and intangible heritage, to such an extent that engineers and other scientists now have a decisive role to play in building the future of memory and heritage.
Do you want to take part in a great Digital Humanities opportunity? The Swiss Study Foundation’s beneficiaries are eligible to register to the Hackathon for the Montreux Jazz Memories!
The Humanities Computing Department of the University of Lausanne, in collaboration with the EPFL Cultural Heritage & Innovation Center and EPFL College of Humanities, organize a Code Hackathon to exploit the collection and enhancement of the memory of the Montreux Jazz Festival community through a public and digital history project (“Montreux Jazz Memories”). The following link provide you with more information.
Goals
The challenge aims at making use of algorithms to mine the interviews of Montreux Jazz Memories. You must be able to leverage data through algorithms to extract valuable and structured information. You should consider different application possibilities such as (but not limited to):
- automatic emotion detection
- automatic enhancement of transcripts
- automatic extraction of anecdotes
The main goal is to provide the user with an output capable of emphasizing the cultural heritage of the data by means of the support of automatic methods for the generation of useful and relevant information.
Programme
Friday 4th November 2022 (UNIL – Anthropole 4030)
- 2pm Registration
- 3pm Welcome and Introduction
- 5pm Technical checks
- 6pm End
Monday 7th November 2022 (UNIL – Anthropole 5196)
- 9am Welcome
- 9h30am Hackathon
- 6pm End
Tuesday 8th November 2022 (UNIL – Anthropole 2120)
- 8h30 am project presentations
- 10am Jury discussion
- 11am Awards attribution
- 12pm End
NB: Depending on where the Swiss Study Foundation’s beneficiaries registering are located, the launch session of the Friday will be made online. Hotel rooms will then be secured for the participants between Sunday 6th November and Tuesday 8th November.
Technical information and prerequisites about Data & Infrastructure and collaborative work
The data are the transcripts of interviews made by different protagonists of the Montreux Jazz Festival during all these years. The data are transcribed in Json format and will be freely accessible during the hackathon.
Programming language to be able to deal with this data must imperatively be Python. The project team expect each group member to have a good knowledge of python programming.
The project team suggest using PyCharm Pro or VSCode for collaborative programming.
Please have a look at:
- VSCode: https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/collaboration/live-share
- PyCharm Pro: Look at https://www.jetbrains.com/code-with-me/
The project team expect each group member to know how to use one of two solutions for collaborative coding and that each participants is equipped with a personal laptop. Each group member is expected to have a strong aptitude for collaborative teamwork.
Additional important infos
- Meals and drinks will be provided to you free of charge during the hackathon day.
- There is no cost to register for the hackathon.
- Map and Orientation: https://planete.unil.ch/?share=d6e51ca4-0f42-43e2-b254-928660a92589
Awards
1st place
- A FREE TICKET for a MJF Concert
- Guided visit to Claude Nobs Chalet
- Guided visit to “Behind the scenes” of MJF
2nd place
- Voucher for a lunch at the MJCafé
- Guided visit to “Montreux Jazz Heritage Lab” (with immersive musical experience)
- Guided visit to “Behind the scenes” of MJF
3rd place
- Guided visit to “Montreux Jazz Heritage Lab” (with immersive musical experience)
- Guided visit to “Behind the scenes” of MJF
Working language: English
Target audience: beneficiaries of the Swiss Study Foundation of all disciplines (see prerequisite section)
Number of participants: Registration is in teams. Teams must be composed of a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 4 people. In case you do not manage to find other peers among the Swiss Studay Foundation’s beneficiaries, the Project team will allocated you to an existing team.
Registration link: https://form.jotform.com/222640818181353 – please indicate your Swiss Study Foundation beneficiary’s status and provide a very short text explaining the reasons why you are registering. Pease send a copy of this text to stefano.aloise@studienstiftung.ch.
Location: University of Lausanne
Coordination: Hackathon Montreux Jazz Memories’ Team hackathon.montreux@gmail.com
Administration: Stefano Aloise
Acknowledgements
The event is supported and sponsored by the dhCenter of UNIL-EPFL.
