New web application by students of the School of Information wins grand prize in hackathon
By Adrianna Dinolfo
A team of 11 first-year School of Information graduate students received the grand prize in this weekend’s “HackTheHearst” competition for their new web application, Yapi Kapi, an online catalog of hundreds of thousands of artifacts held at UC Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology.
The application features more than 700,000 California Indian artifacts, including basic tools, weapons and baskets, and is geared toward a fourth-grade audience. Arranged by region, the application presents users with an interactive map and prompts them to select the land area of interest. The application then scans and identifies the artifacts that have been located in that region and organizes them by tribe. Users are free to browse and add artifacts to their online collection....