{"id":350,"date":"2022-04-25T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T07:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/?page_id=350"},"modified":"2022-07-04T05:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T05:52:39","slug":"hackathon-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/hackathon-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackathon 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-385 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2022\/07\/Ho_2022-1024x858.jpg\" alt=\"Group photo 2020 Hackathon\" width=\"1024\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2022\/07\/Ho_2022-1024x858.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2022\/07\/Ho_2022-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2022\/07\/Ho_2022-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2022\/07\/Ho_2022-1536x1287.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2022\/07\/Ho_2022-2048x1715.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/hackathon-2022\/handson-2022-programme-schedule\/\">The Hackathon programme is available here<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The 2022 Hackathon explored the theme of \u2018Geographies of the Silk Road\u2019.\u00a0 We worked with the world-renowned <a href=\"https:\/\/cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk\/collections\/genizah\/1\">Geniza Research Unit at Cambridge University Library<\/a> and its unique collections. Its 193,000 manuscript fragments are an unparalleled resource for life, faith and culture in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean world. In preparation for an exhibition at the British Museum, we created innovative prototypes using this wealth of documents to explore, present and engage different audiences. We engaged with and displayed the routes of the Silk Road, its trading networks and multiculturalism. \u00a0The programme brought together students with varied levels of IT knowledge and of ancient languages. The programme included students from:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>School of History, Queen Mary University of London<\/li>\n<li>Faculties of History, English and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge<\/li>\n<li>Charles University, Prague<\/li>\n<li>School of History, Radboud University Nijmegen<\/li>\n<li>Department of Art History, Tel Aviv University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The Hackathon took place in Cambridge, UK, 27 June-1 July 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-351 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2022\/04\/Marco-Polo-Silk-Road-Catalan-Atlas.jpg-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2022\/04\/Marco-Polo-Silk-Road-Catalan-Atlas.jpg-copy-2.jpg 690w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2022\/04\/Marco-Polo-Silk-Road-Catalan-Atlas.jpg-copy-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hackathon programme is available here &nbsp; The 2022 Hackathon explored the theme of \u2018Geographies of the Silk Road\u2019.\u00a0 We worked with the world-renowned Geniza Research Unit at Cambridge University Library and its unique collections. Its 193,000 manuscript fragments are an unparalleled resource for life, faith and culture in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean [&#8230;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/hackathon-2022\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-350","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/handson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}