{"id":309,"date":"2026-06-08T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/?p=309"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:50:02","slug":"data-release-countdown-22-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/2026\/06\/08\/data-release-countdown-22-days-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Data release countdown: 22 days to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are just <strong>three weeks left<\/strong> until the reference samples are released. A quick recap of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/challenge\/timeline\/\">timeline<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>01st Jul<\/strong>: reference samples go live<\/li>\n<li><strong>01st Aug<\/strong>: submission portal opens<\/li>\n<li><strong>30th Sep<\/strong>: submission portal closes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>How are the reference samples accessed?<\/h1>\n<p>You need to <a href=\"http:\/\/\\\\wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/register\">register<\/a> and allow us the option to email you. Then, on Wed 01st Jul, you will receive an email that gives you a link and a password to access the reference samples. From there you can download them and get to work.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions, don&#8217;t hesitate to ask: <a href=\"mailto:factor@lancaster.ac.uk\">factor@lancaster.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are just three weeks left until the reference samples are released. A quick recap of the timeline: 01st Jul: reference samples go live 01st Aug: submission portal opens 30th Sep: submission portal closes How are the reference samples accessed? You need to register and allow us the option to email you. Then, on Wed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}