Challenges

All challenge pages are listed below; every challenge has sections titled "Background", "Solutions", and "Resources". Each of these challenges has a museum librarian listed as the owner, and lists a primary goal of either: expanding public access, improving AMNH research, or enhancing education.

The top of every challenge page has a listing of all the Hackathon Projects created to solve it.

The Background describes the problem(s) that the challenge is attempting to solve and overall goals.

Each challenge proposes several Solutions which a team of 5 or more people could successfully build a working prototype of during the hackathon.

Lastly, the Resources section contains links to relevant datasets, documentation, formats, or downloads of sample files specifically for the solutions to that challenge. Sample files are often included in this GitHub repository (<> Code tab above), under the "challenges" directory, in a sub-directory named for the challenge.

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• Historic Personages: Tell the Story of a Prominent Woman Scientist, Explorer, or Researcher from the Museum (As many solutions as needed) {Chris Johnson} {Enhancing Education}

• Map The Collections: Georeference Collections Specimens to Visualize Expeditions and Ecosystems in Space and Time. (n solutions) {Chris Johnson} {Improving AMNH Research}

• Marine Fossil Identifier: Use Computer Vision and 3D Modeling to Identify Fossil Fragments of Shells, Bivalves, Trilobites. (n solutions) {Melanie Hopkins} {Improving AMNH Research}

• Iron Out the Kinks: Create Tools to Automate Rendering 3D Models of Marine Microbes from 2D Cross-sections. (2n solutions) {Aaron Heiss} {Improving AMNH Research}

• The Eye of Maria: Build Simulations to Model the Effect of a Hurricane on Objects Drifting in the Ocean. (n solutions) {David Lindo} {}

• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Map, animate, and quantify geographical sources and travel time scales of plastic found in the GPGP. We have data of plastic locations and ocean model data of ocean currents to backtrack from sinks to sources. (n solutions) {David Lindo} {Enhancing Education}

• Library Metasearch: Create a Unified Interface to Browse All Internal and External Reference Descriptions ("Instant Answers") (4-5 solutions) {Iris Lee} {Expanding Public Access}

• The Evolution of Darwin's Notes: Use Computer Vision to Explore Darwin's Own "Excised" Notes on Evolution and Piece Them Together (2-3 solutions) {David Kohn} {Enhancing Education}