Liveblog for CultureHackNorth

now we're on to prizes - Awesomeness award goes to Kha-Kau-Re, most Beautiful to ColourTone, most useful to Considerthelibrary.co.uk most placeful to whitworth.geothings.net,most playful to the train app

Kha-Kau-Re The team noticed that there were lots of data sets - so tthey set out to use all of them! The result shows a graph - nodes - each one represents a sponsor eg Cornerhouse, and you can select one. This hack tries to do what it can with the data - so if there's address info it uses a map. You can drill down through the data from one starting point. My description cant do this justice, it has to be seen to be appreciated. For instance there's separate graphing software on top - which is impressive in itself.

Jonny and Alex next, presenting 'consider the library' . Using the Leeds library data, this Chrome plug-in stops you buying books when they are in the local Leeds library. Considerthelibrary.co.uk If you are on Amazon, and select a book that is available in the library, up comes a pop-up which tells you that its available in your local library. Fantastic money saving hack to stop you buying books that can be loaned instead, and encourages you to use your local library. Works with Watertones too. Tells you which Leeds library has it - eg Moortown. Future developments - extend to other cities. Tim in the audience suggested it would be good to be able to reserve the book too.

So making music from images went down well with the audience. Next up we have an emergency opinion generator. For those moments when you are on a date and need to say something intelligent for instance 'what do you think about the latest exhibition from Mario Mertz at the Henry Moore'. You'll get a response from the app to see you through these awkward situations. Crudely - this will use the Bing API to find a comment and the dataset to get the facts. This will be in the Android app store later today.

Tom and Johnny on next, they've used the data from Cornerhouse, you can look through films shown, see a trailer, and reviews from three external review sites. We're whizzing though these - next one is Colourtone, idea is that there are many gallery images, take these from several data sets, and show the image as music. Red values - drums, blue guitar, green bass - and it works! Third one is based on Opera North data - a visualisation of people working on a production. Check @tomwade for the the urls for these.

Comments from audience that this app could be used for sculpture, art and so on - would apply to many of the data sets that have been made available

What is it about trains? We're all now quite excited about 'Name that train'. Alistair and Heather are presenting this fun game on an app for your visit to the Railway Museum, and we're already having fun and we're not even at the museum yet - quite a few of the audience are trying to 'name that train'! Look at the picture, try and find the train, and take part in the fun quiz. Not just one app but two - another one finds trains near your location.

Next up - Martin Cunningham's filmfinder, using Cornerhouse film listings dataset. designed for a touch screen monitor. Visitor enters they can find A-Z of films, and view upcoming films.

Tim Walters is the first hacker to present. whitworth.geothings.net is a hack using the Whitworth Gallery data set. Nice map showing the location of the landscape, showing the picture, and also landscape photos from Flickr.

Presentations are starting. @thehodge is plugging his new ''peekwall' app for use during events which he's been working on whilst here at Culture Hack North - making the most of his time. It even has a tweet filter which blocks swearwords, based on checking against his list of 400.

Hacks have been submitted, just waiting now for the presentations to start

Culture folks have gone to the pub, leaving the hackers to carry on working. Hmm.

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Last speaker is ?? who has developed an app for Art in Yorkshire. What if we got rid of copyright? Arts in danger of not being nimble enough to catch up.

Next talk is Rohan from Edinburgh festivals innovation lab. What if the world does end next year. What would we do about it? would challenge four things. 1. I give you some £££ and you give me a website. Because we don't recognise the creatives that developers are. 2. What we want is what people want. Seeing alot of workshops about crowd funding - that's what organisations want, not what people want. 3. It's all too much. See a lot a sense of overwhelment. The job of orgs is to turn the straw of data into the gold of meaning. 4. it's ok, the magic digital project will save me.

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Next speaker is Frankie Roberto and has a talk called Embracing Ambiguity? Three years ago did a map of Blue Plaques. Thought it would be simple but English Heritage data was difficult to get hold of. Ended up being a project called Open Plaques which is still going on.

Helen Harrop now talking about what would happen if personal data was made public. in 2000 became a c++ tester and debugger. Now involved with HE and library data. Last year needed a major operation so started an art project @moremorphine. Started collecting data as a patient - pain, mobility, happiness. * Maths, tech, oversharing fail. * Humanity win. "I didn't really think anyone would be following it"

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Matt Edgar now saying - What if, the inner lives of buildings could be seen as well as the outside. People rip out the heart of a building and just leave a cell. Temple Works given as an example of facadism.

Works for Mudlark in Derbyshire making interactive experiences. Background in meta theatre criticism. Now Natasha Carolan asking what if you made yourself a souvenir. WE attempt to capture the things that are important to use.

Three talks coming up next. Related to the arts and tech. 1st speaker is Greg Povey - what we could see the stories all around us? sounds a bit like n0tice!

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The next two days is all about hacking data from the north's culturtal organisations. Loads have donated data sets and we're going to get out hands on it. Soon. At the moment we're waiting to get started and have lots of teas and coffee.