Marking the 110th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Goran Kovačić, Croatia's great poet, storywriter, essayist, translator, journalist and literary critic, the Ivan Goran Kovačić City Library in Karlovac and the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) – through the activities of the Croatian Web Archive (HAW), the Library’s European Documentation Centre (EDC NSK) and the NSK User Services Department – jointly organised HAWathon, a competition whose participants focused on gathering online content thematising Kovačić’s life and work and whose final result was the creation of this thematic collection.
The cooperation which enabled HAWathon was initiated by the Ivan Goran Kovačić City Library in Karlovac, which in 2023 is celebrating 60 years of bearing the name of this notable Croatian author. Supporting HAWathon as partners were Karlovac Grammar School (Gimnazija Karlovac), European Commission Representation in Croatia and Europe Direct Karlovac.
HAWathon was also organised to mark the European Year of Skills, aimed at educating the wider public with regard to digital skills and information literacy, for which citizen science initiatives relying on crowdsourcing are the ideal opportunities.
The collection includes websites, news sites’ posts, websites of public institutions and organisations named after Ivan Goran Kovačić, blog posts, as well as papers on his life and work available on Hrčak, the Portal of Croatian scientific and professional journals, and thus brings together in one place all content on this subject in the Croatian Web Archive for both researchers and the wider public.
The collection contains 81 collected URLs, totalling 249 GB of data.