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Datasprint 2016
Promoting the valorisation of data at the
Association des archivistes français
Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon 2016 - July. 1-2
Maïwenn Bourdic

2.
Archives
datasprint
2016

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Since 2010, lawsuits between a
genealogical society and archives
about reuse of digital archives.
> Fear of reuse (especially
commercial reuse)
> Fear of fall of public financing to
digitization
> Ignorance of what open data is
5 national archives
100 departmental archives
30 big municipal archives
But only ~ 5 archives with
real open data politics
Open data in French archives
Slowly it moves… : partnerships with Wikimedia France, educational
« lobbying » of pro open data, French open data laws for public
administrations (but still a little “cultural exception”)...

4.
March – June 2015
Forum of the Association des archivistes français (AAF) (March 2016) about
“meta/morphoses : les archives, bouillons de culture numérique”
➢ >> 3 days of conferences and workshops (website)
>> and an event about archives, data, even open data...
Brainstorming
what kind of event ?
for who ? archivescamp ?
hackathon ?
Debrief of the first Swiss
Open Cultural Data
Hackathon, thks again !
It will be a datasprint
Prepared in advance, with results and
tools displayed during the forum.
Target : showing what we can do with
archives data and how

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First step : we need data from archives ! (xml, csv, pictures)
July – December 2015
> call for participation (mailing via the
association)
> information meeting to explain the event in
November (around 12 persons - slide)
> web platform to list data created with Tumblr
(fast and simple, RWD, tag navigation)
> toolbox with infoviz tools
datasprint.forum2016.archivistes.org

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January – March 2016
> form (for inscription and access to data) +
spreadsheet to list project
> work mainly at distance, alone or in a mini
team
> tutorials for some projects
Animated gifs
Because archives are a bit
suspicious about open
data in France, we’ve
accepted data with open
licence AND data just for
the event

7.
> projects finalization
> 2 workshops to present the event and tools (around 60 persons)
> final presentation for the forum closing
Storify #datasprintAAF
D-DAY - FORUM
March 30-31. April 1st. 2016

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Statistics
Watch infographics
/ datasets (xml, jpeg, csv, ...)
/ pictures
/ about 20 projects

9.
We’re still talking about it ! And we explain
how it’s important to even think to reuse
when we are doing inventories / indexing
Trainings tools and tricks
A tools camp soon ? …
And now ?

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List of projects
Education in Vendée, 1800-1940 - Rennes building permits - Orléans à building permits -
War damages in Yvelines - Strikes and trade unions in Drôme - Associations in Ille-et-
Vilaine - Capaul watercolours (Ile-de-France) - Yesterday and today postcards in Saône-et-
Loire - Armor postcard - Animated gifs - Gazette des archives magazine - Archives training
center (AAF) - Archives websites statistics - Archives in France statistics - Beaune
passports, 1810-1857 - French senators on Wikidata - Monoprix shops - Pictures of
Kandinsky family - Stained glasses in Aube
● DatasprintAAF : recap infographic
● DatasprintAAF : list of projects
● Toolbox data & infoviz

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Project : Rennes building permits
Project Permis de construire de Rennes
From 22 xml (not EAD, and
not really clean) files… … to a dynamic heatmap

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Project : Rennes building permits
Project Permis de construire de Rennes
5 persons (archivist / documentalist non geek) working at distance and
learning how to clean and visualize data >> didactic tutorial
Clean-up and harmonization of
data using OpenRefine

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Project : Rennes building permits
40 000 building permits geocoded with adresse.data.gouv.fr

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Project : Rennes building permits
Visualization of data with CartoDB

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Project : Rennes building permits
Result : a time scalable (heat)map of building permits in the city…
Watch the map !

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500 photos of passports (1835-1859)
taken in the municipal archives and
shared on Dropbox
between 5 genealogists
Project : Beaune passports
Project Passeports
de Beaune

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Tools for crowd-sourcing :
● a custom Google Form filling a spreadsheet
● 5 genealogists in a coworking
place on a January sunday
Project : Beaune passports
Project Passeports
de Beaune

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Data mass cleaning with OpenRefine :
Example :
Cote d’Or / Côte d’Or /
Cote-d’Or = Côte-d’Or
Project : Beaune passports
Project Passeports
de Beaune

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Dissemination of the result : list of 410 persons uploaded on
Geneanet ( genealogical website)
Project : Beaune passports
Project Passeports de Beaune

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Statistics : infographies, graphs, treemap,
… (Infogram, Piktochart, Drasticdata)
Project : Beaune passports
Project Passeports de Beaune

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Maps of journeys created
with Umap / Framacartes
one layer = one passport
View all the maps
Project : Beaune passports
Project Passeports de Beaune

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Free and easy tools
to visualize data

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OpenRefine (Excel with hormons)
● Cleaning messy data with transformations,
facets and clustering for semi-structured data
●
● Mass transformations : split / join cells, powerful
search and transform, mass editing of similar
data, cluster
●
● Transform format : XML into CSV ; Wikicode
●
● Save script of transformation (json)
●
Clean-up and transform data

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How to get mass geo coordinates to map data
: BatchGéocodeur or adresse.data.gouv.fr
(France) (when you don’t know how to play with API).
Geocode data
Tutorial (fr)

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Juxtapose JS : a very simple tool to compare two
pictures. Works for multi-touch screen. Embed code.
Juxtapose JS : before / after
Tutorial (fr) - Project Hier et aujourd’hui (mobile app, Geneanet)

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Easy way to make timeline with text, image, video,
sound, map...
Works with multi-touch screen. Embed code.
Template Google Spreadsheet with data convert
into a timeline on TimelineJS
Timelines
Tutorial (fr)

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TimeMapper juxtaposes timeline and / or
map.
Same then above, content is into a
template Google Spreadsheet
Timelines (with map)
Tutorial (fr) - Projects Monoprix d’Ouchacoff ; Famille Kandinsky

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Slides with media on a map / image.
Works with multi-touch screen. Embed code.
StoryMap
Example The Garden of
Earthly Delights (Bosch)

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Umap (or Framacarte), tools based on
Openstreetmap.
Personnalize maps
Project Passeports de Beaune
● Create points, lines, polygons,
grouped by layers
● Add content / pictures / link / icons
● Import / export / share.

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CartoDB : a wonderful tool to visualize
and analyse (mass) data.
Upload geolocated data and
customize your map (type, color,
details, etc.)
Mapping databases (and inventories)

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Mapping databases (and inventories)
Cluster Heatmap (animated)
Projects Permis de construire
de Rennes et d’Orléans
Kindergarten in the 19th. century
Project Instruction publique en Vendée

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Infogram or Piktochart : content / data / statistics
visualization, graphics, bank icons.
Infographics

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Pixlr.com (free online image editor) + Gifmaker.me
Animated gif
Tutorial (Jérémie Halais,
Archives de la Manche)

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Toolbox
See the mindmap

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Let’s dataviz’
Maïwenn Bourdic
patrimoine-et-numerique.fr
@daieuxdailleurs