AQuA - The London Mashup

Blog post by Paul Wheatley on [the AQuA approach to the digital preservation hackathon/mashup|http://openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2011-06-16-digital-preservation-3-days-flat-aqua-approach-hacking-and-mashing]


[\#AQuAqa|https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23AQuAqa] for project tweeting

h2. London Mashup Evaluation

[Survey Monkey Evaluation|http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2Q6XG9B]
[Solution evaluation questions|AQuA:Solution evaluation questions (London)]

h3. Day 1: Understanding the problem

* 1030 - 1100 Refreshments available
* 1100 - 1130 Introductions and scene setting
** Welcome (Bo Middleton) - 2 mins
** Practical stuff - rooms, toilets, fire safety, permissions to take photos, etc - 2 mins
** Our goal and outline for the 3 days (Paul Wheatley) - 10 mins
** Introduce facilitators
** AQuA work areas online
*** Overview so everyone can [get onto the wiki and OPF GitHub|http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/PT/Developing+with+the+OPF] and contribute (Andy Jackson / Maurice de Rooij)
** Show and tell, 2 lightning talks from the Leeds AQuA Mashup ([Maurice|AQuA:Image Comparison Lightning Talk] and Sven)
* 1130 - 1200 Collections and QA challenges - lightning talks from collection owners on their collections and initial thoughts on challenges (Bo) (2 minutes each)
* 1200 - 1215 Techie introductions: interests, technologies, and the collections/preservation issues they are most interested in (Bo) (1 minute each)
* 1215 - 1300 Lunch
* 1300 - 1430 Understanding the preservation issues (parallel session, breakout into 2 groups)
** Announce teams and rooms
** Capture preservation triples: collection - issue - solution
*** Small groups, one collection per flipchart page, record issues and solutions
*** Each team selects triple that they will own
* 1430 - 1500 Each team reports back to the room on their triple (any clashes are resolved by teaming up or changing triples)
* 1500 - 1700 Begin hacking, mashing and writing up
* 1700 Close
* 1900 Dinner - [Ciao Bella restaurant|http://www.ciaobellarestaurant.co.uk/], 86-90 Lamb's Conduit St Bloomsbury, WC1N 3LZ [Google map from BL to restaurants|http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?gl=uk&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=&msa=0&msid=203280504242263458978.0004a50bb7b3596881b10&ll=51.526234,-0.119948&spn=0.011374,0.027595&z=15]

h3. Day 2: Developing the solutions

* 0900 - 0915 Welcome back
* Hacking and mashing, with a variety of sessions throughout the day:
** Lightning talks reporting back to the group on mashup work
** Techie sessions, including: Tools/technologies exhange
** Content owner sessions, including: Making sample content available, presrvation planning, lifecycle/workflow
* 1645 - 1700 End of day wrap up: Prep for tomorrow.
** Start thinking about results, visualisations, demos and reporting back for evaluation.
* 1900 Dinner - [Wahaca |http://www.wahaca.co.uk/html/1_restaurant4.html]Mexican Food and Tequila Bar, 80 Wardour Street, Soho, London, W1F OTF [Google map from BL to restaurants|http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?gl=uk&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=&msa=0&msid=203280504242263458978.0004a50bb7b3596881b10&ll=51.526234,-0.119948&spn=0.011374,0.027595&z=15]

h3. Day 3: Evaluating the results

* 0900 - 0915 Welcome back - wrapping up the AQuA Mashup
** Outline where we want to be by 1500
** Reminders on checking in code, content, problem outlines etc.
* 0915 - 1130 Tool/content mashup session
** Includes quick brainstorm for Neil Grindley
* 1130 - 1200 Lightning talks: Cunning code and digital disasters
* 1200 - 1245 Lunch
* 1245 - 1345 More lightning talks
* 1345 - 1445 Evaluating our mashups: Content owner and peer review
** Peer review between content owner / techie pairs (reviewing the results)
** Event review
* 1445 - 1500 Wrap up
** Present prizes\!
** Thanks, what happens next (AQuA Project wrapup), reminder to keep in touch via OPF site, thoughts about future work/projects
** Group photo