Best use of Tasmanian Heritage Data
Use the data to showcase Launceston’s history, people and stories.
Eligibility: Must use Tasmanian data.
Go to Challenge | 2 teams have entered this challenge.
Team Name:
LOL Historians
Team Members:
History Box
Project Info
Team Name
LOL Historians
Team Members
Peter , Freya , Joee and 2 other members with unpublished profiles.
Project Description
Exploding history from the dusty digital archives.
There's a lot of history available through various national and state repositories that are extremely entertaining. We observed team members' reactions to watching them thought almost everyone we knew here in Launceston would enjoy looking at the archives as much as we did.
History box is an app that aims to engage the Launceston community with history. It scrapes several archives and collates it in an app using location data and key words. The user is invited to upload photos, video, reviews and links to become part of living history. These can either be of the place or object or their reaction to it.
Although this app was developed with locals in mind, it can also be used by future visitors to find out more about Launceston before they leave home. Potentially providing commercial benefit to our community.
Data Story
Our major data sources are Trove (National Library of Australia) and Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office (Libraries Tasmania). We used the Heritage Places data source from Launceston City Council to help us handpick some points of interest and developed queries to scrape Trove and TAHO.
Team DataSets
Tasmanian Heritage Register
Launceston City Council, Heritage Places
Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office
Trove, National Library of Australia
Challenge Entries
Best Use of Tasmanian Spatial Data
How can you use a Tasmanian spatial data to improve Tasmanian residents lives on a daily basis?
Eligibility: Must use Tasmanian data.
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
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Small and informal community/interest groups who have formed to solve local problems need data to know if their activities are making a difference and to re-design programs. How can we help these groups tell their story through data so they can seek support (political, financial, and on the ground) by showing how their programs are working, and decide where to focus next?
Eligibility: Use any open dataset to support your entry.
Go to Challenge | 23 teams have entered this challenge.
Leveraging innovation precincts to drive economic prosperity.
How might we build on interaction between businesses and research institutions in Australian innovation precincts, to boost business capability, growth, and job creation?
Eligibility: The dataset "Stocktake of Australian Innovation Precincts – June 2019" must be used
Go to Challenge | 23 teams have entered this challenge.
Open challenge benefits to the greater Launceston community
What is important to you in your community in the Launceston region? What can your technology do to help to make Launceston awesome? This is an open challenge so come up with something creative.
Eligibility: Your product has a focus on Launceston or the Launceston region
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Training AI models to deliver better human outcomes
For an outcome create two AI models based on contrasting incentive systems and examine the differing impacts on the defined outcome.
Eligibility: Must make use of any open dataset and apply two different incentive systems
Go to Challenge | 12 teams have entered this challenge.
Most Tasmanian Commercial Benefit
How can we showcase Tasmanian Data, and create something that could go on to be Commercial success?
Eligibility: Must use Tasmanian data
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.