Coding Da Vinci Nord: A full success for all participants
Published with the friendly assistance of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky (State- and University Library Carl von Ossietzky in Hamburg), Author: Markus Trapp
The atmosphere in the bunker on the Heiligengeistfeld in the resonance chamber yesterday was great. After the kick-off of the cultural hackathon Coding Da Vinci Nord on 17./18.9.2016, all participants met each other again yesterday – both the cultural institutions who provided their data and the programmers and designers who created something innovative with these data in order to attend the project presentation consisting of 17 teams and the following award ceremony. It is hard to know where to start with all this enthusiasm, but let us simply do it like this: first of all, let us start with the award winners followed by the introduction of the seven projects which had dealt with the data of Stabi.
The grand prize for the highest score in all categories was awarded to the highly professional team creating the app Zeitblick, who not only had a great presentation video but were even also able to impress with the setting of their app in the App Store by Apple on the day of the award ceremony.
Great success:
What can the app do? We quote from the self-description of the project:
Via face recognition, the best suitable portrait from the history of art is presented to a selfie. Try out and view the amazing result in the museum and share on the Internet.
Also a team who worked with the data of the Stabi, received a prize, namely for the so-called „Most Playfulness“, for the most playful implementation:
With views from the Stabi and the MKG, the KollekTOURmat provides the following functions (here we again quote from the project description):
Hamburg's historical views can be discovered at original locations during a guided walk lasting approximately one hour: with kollekTOURmat, you can discover the history of Hamburg – analog and on foot — and complete a specified tour.
With a purchased booklet* and equipped with a borrowed mobile printer, the tour-participant can take different sightseeing tours through the city – either alone or as a group, as a youngster or a silver surfer – and via a GPS radius, you have the possibility only on site (location-based /„positionsbezogen“) to print out new/old perspectives and so to find and compare buildings from previous centuries with the current urban planning and to make collections.
It is a little like a Panini album for the culturally interested Pokemon-Go player which is to be filled with most advanced digital technology combined with the analog exploration on foot. For any other information on the implementation of this great idea, which we gladly supported with our data, please refer to kollektourmat.de.
Moreover, the beautiful realisation «Sound Of SAilS» was awarded with the «Technical Achievement» Prize (best technical support) – here you find a clay sample –, the «MKGo» project with the «Best Design» Award and the sophisticated installation «Klang der Sterne» with the «Unusual Use of Data» Prize.
When the Stabi's Director, Gabriele Beger, was asked for a press statement on CDV Nord before the final event, she wrote:
Regardless of the jury's judgement, Coding Da Vinci Nord is already a gain for us. For what could be better for us than to have creative people creating something new with the cultural heritage archived by us with great enthusiasm?
And this is exactly how it happens. Apart from the Stabi's Director Gabriele Beger, yesterday's award ceremony was also attended by Kerstin Wendt (department of digitisation), Antje Theise (presentation "Altes Buch") and the author of these lines, Markus Trapp (staff position Social Media). And we were highly impressed by the products each project team created with our data. And we mean all seven projects, not only the one that was already introduced and awarded with a prize. Therefore, the other six great projects will be shortly introduced here; the sequence represents no valuation:
Six further projects with Stabi data:
1. Histblogger – Kopergravure
A project by Andreas Schröpfer and Lorenz Muck:
An interactive collection tool for participant-generated contents with a connected long-term blog project for digitised art objects of the historical Dutch copperplate engravings of the Stasi Hamburg. | Quotation Hackdash
All information on «Histblogger – Kopergravure» under kupferstich.github.io.
2. Chronoscope Hamburg
A development by Matthias Müller-Prove.
The chronoscope is a time machine with which you can travel through 100, 200 or 300 years of Hamburg's history. For this purpose, the historical maps are exactly visible on the current city map or a satellite picture of Hamburg. The transparency is adjustable, so that you are able to compare and orient yourself. | Quotation Hackdash
For information on the Chronoscope Hamburg, please refer to mprove.net/chronoscope.
3. SEVEN X TWO – About Virtues and Vices
If there had been a prize for the best individual competitor at CDV Nord, it would surely have been awarded to graphic designer Birgit Lippeck. Through the project development, she lost the programmer and 2 weeks before the end of the Hackathon period, she quickly decided to carry out her project on doing something with the copperplate engravings of the Stabi completely on her own. As a result, she had the wonderful film idea to let allegoric figures from the Stabi's collection of copperplate engravings compete against each other in seven single combats. Here you find a first design of the film (please note the armadillo):
Part1 – About Virtues and Vices:
An animated series of short films from Dutch copperplate engravings from the 16th centruy in seven parts about the everlasting inner conflict between "virtue" and "vice" or "good" and "evil".
Being fascinated by the allegoric copperplate engravings of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg with all its symbolism, it made sense to create something with these copperplate engravings, particularly with the two series of virtues and sins by Jacob Matham and Jan Saendredam. | Quotation Hackdash
4. Kupferguerillas
A project by Ines Jarchow and her young programmers:
This inspired the idea to free the copperplate engravings and make them available to the people through Augmented Reality, quiz and audio track.
The different modes were selected to address different interests and "access channels". They were intended for all potential "museum visitors with homeopathically dosed cultural interest".
The topic “The course of the world” is still up-to-date with every picture. Wealth, jealousy, pride … and the deep need for peace has lost nothing of its relevance. So the name “Kupferguerilla – own responsibility and cooperation between people for a more peaceful course of the world“ arised. With the picture cycle, we wish to inform, inspire and bring copperplate engravings from the dark into the light. | Quotation Hackdash
For information on the Kupferguerillas, please refer to kupferguerillias.hol.es.
5. Hansestadt Hamburg’s Historic Heritage
A development by Johannes Kröger, Laboratory of Geoinformation and Geovisualisation, HCU Hamburg, and Sarah Walter, Library and Information Management, HAW Hamburg.
Firstly, we made a selection from more than 200 maps and georeferenced these by means of Map Warper, so that others, too, can carry out further projects with spatial contents with them. Secondly, we programmed — on the basis of free software — an interactive web application which makes it possible to place different historical maps on a current map of Hamburg and to discover in a playful manner the differences between today and then through the dynamic adjustment of the transparency. | Quotation Hackdash
For information on «Hansestadt Hamburg’s Historic Heritage», please refer to hannes42.gitlab.io/hhhh.
And – last but not least:
6. Our modern Hamburg // Fritz Schumacher
A project under the use of our more than 1,200 (!) digitised architectural photographies of Fritz Schumacher's buildings, realised by Ina Brockmann and Timo Lundelius:
Fritz Schumacher
Architect | City Developer| Visionary | 1909 – 1933
A modern architectural concept of a modern functional building and housing continues to mark and structure Hamburg today. In today's city map, we visualise its disciplining of the design from the local material of red bricks. In a second step, we illustrate the urban creative context and develop architectural tours via audio guide. | Quotation Hashdeck
Source code from «Our modern Hamburg // Fritz Schumacher» auf Github.
Now you have received an introduction of all seven projects with the application of the Stabi's data. In quick motion but with all links for further information. We would cordially thank all persons for the creative application of our data sets once again. Special thanks also go to …
the organisation team and all participants of Coding Da Vinci Nord!
We would like to thank the organisation team Coding Da Vinci Nord headed by the project manager Philipp Geisler for a perfect preparation and implementation of the first regional issue of a Coding Da Vinci. With Mindspace for the kick-off, the Wikimedia-Kontor for the regular inter-meetings and the resonance chamber for yesterday's award ceremony, we had excellently suitable locations enabling us to put everything in scene very well.
We would like to close with the sentence with which we have started: that Coding Da Vinci Nord was a full success for all participants. So here is the link to the Hackdash with the project descriptions, links to the demo pages and the source texts of all applications. And the best thing is: the projects bring life for they can and certainly will be used subsequently and developed further:
Original blog contribution of the Stabi Hamburg
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