SPRUCE Events

Future SPRUCE Events: Register now!

• iPREShack - SPRUCE, OPF and CURATEcamp hackathon at iPRES2013, Lisbon, 2nd-5th September 2013
  • A hackathon stretching across 4 days of the iPRES conference. A full day to start, catch ups at the end of the first 2 full days of the conference, and a half day to round things off.

Events to be confirmed

• SPRUCE Evaluation Workshop, London, October 2013 (TBC)
  • This will be open to anyone who has attended a SPRUCE or AQuA Mashup event. The event will provide a chance to take in our achievements, assess what progress has been made and evaluate where we go next. The workshop will include a chance to hear about and evaluate the project work supported by SPRUCE Awards, and hear about the SPRUCE Business Plan for digital preservation.
• SPRUCE Business Plan event(s), Autumn 2013 (TBC)
  • Details to be confirmed.

These events will be confirmed shortly.

Previous SPRUCE Events

Mashups+Hackathons:

• SPRUCE Mashup London 2, London (UK), 2nd-4th July 2013
• SPRUCE Hackathon Leeds: Unified Characterisation, Leeds (UK), 11th-12th March 2013
• SPRUCE Mashup London, September 2012
• SPRUCE Mashup Glasgow, April 2012
• SPRUCE Mashup Leeds, Leeds (UK), 30th April - 2nd May 2013 (cancelled)

Other:

• JISC Digital Preservation Programme meeting, January 2012
• CURATEcamp and OPF 24 hour file format ID hackathon, November 2012, 

Other Events

Here are some of the more innovative event driven projects that we like:

• Open Planets Foundation hackathons: focused on hands on digital preservation, including this one
• Digital Preservation Coalition events: including well respected 1 day workshops on specific DP themes
• CurateCAMP: preservation focused un-conference events
• Dev8d: very well respected UK HE focused hackathons, run by DevSCI
• Hack4Europe: digital library focused EU hackathons
• SSI events: SSI runs various collaboration workshops and coding boot camps