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images rarely seen objects from ancient Egypt places of locomotives in the UK - a vast repository of information on part of the cultural heritage of the region was opened to exploration the weekend

Event Entertainment North Leeds Hack saw large institutions like the National Museum of the media, Henry Moore Institute, Whitworth Art Gallery and other data sets available for volunteers to see what that they could produce, or pirate it.

In many cases, was the first time data was made public in this way and opens the door to similar initiatives to provide better public access to knowledge held within the institutions of art.

event organizer Ashley Mann, Opera North said that the work done during the weekend was a test of the potential of open data.

"This shows that a) these data are useful and b) shows how it could be used, but also shows the creative potential of the spirit of sponsors and art orgs to think about what data can be communicated and in what form / structure, etc. For example, this weekend's National Railway Museum data was used in two hacks that echoes the projects had been discussed internally in the management of natural resources for the last years, and succeeded in 24 hours - incredible "





was the first time in the Manchester Museum has opened all the data collections for external use. Provides details on over 2,000 items of £ 1.5 million redevelopment worlds -. Many old gallery which is available at the following address

The elements form an exhibition in 2012 to commemorate the centenary of the first gallery of Egypt to be opened in the museum. Called the ancient world, three new galleries include collections of Manchester and the region, and ancient civilizations such as Greece, Rome and Egypt.

Other data sets include information

Leeds Botanical Museum, cinema listings Cornerhouse in Manchester, Sheffield Theatres productions from 1971 to 2010 and the library of information for visitors to Leeds.

With the opening of their data collections, the National Railway Museum has also produced this detailed map of the national collection of parts for railway vehicles, which includes links to several data sets.

hacks created

event participants worked through the night from Saturday to produce the hacks after which they were presented at a ceremony on Sunday

landscape painting Whitworth assigned using data from the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.

* Movie Search which used data from Cornerhouse, Manchester * Name
this train that the data used by the National Museum of the railway to form a small game where users to identify a train to New York Railway Museum by a very small image.

trains near me, who used data from the National Rail Museum. * soft operettas
used data from the Opera North.
data * Colour tone of the Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester Museum. comments around the corner, trailers and descriptions of films in Cornerhouse.

addition to all of these links, and data sets are available can be found here on the site of the Hack in the northern culture.

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