Coding da Vinci the Culture Hackathon Back in Berlin
By Wiebke Hauschildt (Online editor)
Since 2014, the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) has been organising, together with its partners Servicestelle Digitalisierung Berlin (Service Centre Digitalisation Berlin), Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland and Wikimedia Deutschland, the first German Culture Hackathon, which focuses on the free availability and usability of cultural data. In 2016, the Hackathon for the first time went to Hamburg as „Coding da Vinci Nord“ with a regional focus before returning back to its hometown Berlin. Also this year, the focus will be on the regional idea, which is why the focus will lie on data from cultural institutions from Berlin and Brandenburg.
30 data sets from a total of 19 institutions are now available , with about half of the data sets related to Berlin. The Berlinische Galerie offers historical city views, the Stadtmuseum Berlin (Town Museum Berlin) provides Heinrich Zille drawings. Photos of the Berlin Wall are provided by the Stiftung Berliner Mauer, whereas the FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum offers pictures and target locations of the „Kreuzberger Bohème“ from the 1950s and 1960s.
Apart from the Berlin-related data sets, you will find varied other topics, including natural science and technology, handicraft and education, arts and culture, and also the media width is remarkable: it ranges from sound files through 3D scans, spherical image sequences to image and text files. All data are open, i.e. they are in the public domain or freely licensed, and they can be used under the licenses CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC0 or as public domain.
What is a Culture Hackathon?
At “Coding da Vinci“, programmers, designers and creative minds develop digital applications on the basis of cultural data. Like in the previous years, Coding da Vinci starts with a kick-off event taking place at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economics in Berlin) on Saturday & Sunday, the 21st and 22nd October. While cultural institutions will introduce their data sets, developers and designers will gather in order to jointly develop the first project ideas under inclusion of the respective representatives of museums, archives and libraries.
Workshops on the topics of open data and creative tech will deepen the topics of the Culture Hackathon. In a workshop, Stephan Bartholmei, who is responsible for product development and innovation at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, will demonstrate with the help of a deep neural network the public API of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek by means of an example app for the classification of images and keyword generation jointly developed with the workshop participants.
The next step will be the "project-development-sprint phase": the project teams will have six weeks to develop and implement their ideas. Finally, on 2 December, the projects will be introduced during the award ceremony of Coding da Vinci at the Jüdisches Museum Berlin (Jewish Museum Berlin) and awarded a prize in different categories.
In Detail
Coding da Vinci – the Culture Hackathon
When?
Saturday, 21 October 2017 & Sunday, 22 October 2017
Where?
Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin
Gebäude H
Wilhelminenhofstraße 75a
12459 Berlin
https://www.htw-berlin.de/
Entrance free – Applications can be made as of 25 September 2017
Further information:
www.codingdavinci.de
https://codingdavinci.de/news/2017/08/25/save-the-date.html
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