sâmbătă, 18 ianuarie 2014

17-19 January: PDF Liberation Hackathon 2014

Some legal data are being worked on at PDF Liberation Hackathon, being held 17-19 January 2014, in Washington, DC; Buenos Aires; New York City; San Francisco; Chicago; Dayton, Ohio; and online.


According to the event’s Website, “communication between hack sites and with remote participants will generally be via Internet Relay Chat (IRC). We will be using channel #SunlightLabs at freenode.net.”


The Twitter hashtag for the event seems to be #PDFHacks14


Legal data being worked on at the hackathon include:



  • New York City crime statistics

  • Amnesty International Annual Reports – Torture Incident Database

  • Federal Communications Commission Daily Releases

  • New York City Council and Community Board Documents


If you know of other legal data sets being worked on at the event, please feel free to identify them in the comments to this post.




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