Will’s World Hack: The Presentations

We have just held our presentation/Show & Tell session for the Will’s World Hack. Whilst we await our fabulous judges’ decisions we thought you would like to see what has been created over the last 7 days. Below you will find links to the Google+ hangout – a wee bit anarchic due to some technical challenges – as well as links to three pre-recorded presentations. We will be reflecting on...

Day Six of the Will’s World Hack

Today we reach Day Six of the Will’s World Hack and we are thrilled with the progress everyone has been making! Three new hacks have been added to the Current Hacks page on the wiki – see the Hack Updates section of this post for more information on each of these. At 1pm (GMT) today we had our daily check in on Google+ with the video now up on YouTube. We covered updates and a wee chat about the...

Day Three of the Will’s World Hack

Will’s World Hack is in its third day now and we are hoping to hear more from potential hacks as the weekend approaches and people can leave work behind for some hack time fun! We held two drop-in sessions today on Google+ Hangout and as usual, they are now available for viewing on YouTube, Google+ and linked in our daily update post at: In the first session (1pm GMT), we highlighted the addition of rules on the...

Day One of the Will’s World Hack

In readiness for the beginning of the Will’s World Hack we were delighted to launch the Will’s World Registry this morning. The Registry, the development of which we have been charting on this blog, includes the metadata from our fantastic project partners, information on the schema and mappings, and related resources including XML versions of all of Shakespeare’s plays. During the hack we will...

Will’s World Hack (#willhack) Starts Soon!

Tomorrow will see the start of Will’s World Online Hack. The opening session will take place on Google+ hangout at 1pm GMT. Most participants are in the UK but we also have someone from Spain and folks from the USA. We’re hoping you can join us but it may be a bit early for California! Join Us for the Live Launch! If you have already registered then join us live on Google+ hangout or YouTube if you...