Coding da Vinci – Germany’s First Culture Hackathon

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“The huge potential of cultural data for digital applications is very clear: the cultural and the digital profit from each other”, according to Frank Frischmuth, director of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (08.07.2014).

For the first time in 2014 and together with its partners Servicestelle Digitalisierung Berlin, Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland and Wikimedia Deutschland, the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek has organised Germany’s first culture hackathon. Under the title “Coding da Vinci”, programmers, designers and gaming enthusiasts are developing digital applications based on cultural data together with cultural institutions. The source material includes discretionary metadata, images, audio and video files and 3D models, which are made available as open data by galleries, museums, libraries and research institutes. After 10 weeks of developing time, a jury declares the winners of the five categories in a public awards ceremony. The results of “Coding da Vinci” are published for reuse under an open licence.

In 2014, 16 museums, libraries and research institutes made their data available; the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek was represented over the API with the metadata from over 100 participating institutions. A total of 17 teams presented their apps for children and adults, augmented reality ideas for museums and much more in the Jüdisches Museum Berlin. It was particularly important that the participating teams communicated with the cultural institutions, as Claus Höfele, one of the prize winners, raves about the hackathon: “Finally, contact with the museums!”

In 2015, the number of the participating cultural institutions has doubled. For example, the 32 data suppliers include the Stadtarchiv Speyer with photographs from the First and Second World Wars, the Haus der Geschichte with images of the student revolt of 1967/68 and the Deutsches Filminstitut with Germany’s first amateur films by Julius Neubronner (1904). The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek is taking part with the Union Catalogue of the scientific libraries in Bavaria, Berlin and Brandenburg totalling 22 million metadata entries, while the Berlinische Galerie is providing two collections: one for the Berlin Secession, the other including Dadaistic written correspondence.
 

Looking Back on Coding da Vinci 2014 (in German language)

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Coding da Vinci 2015 - The Crowd-funding Campaign (in German language)

In order to make Coding da Vinci 2015 just as much of a success, the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek started a crowd-funding campaign together with Wikimedia Deutschland, the Open Knowledge Foundation and Servicestelle Digitalisierung Berlin. The aim was to get the cultural hackers more time for the creative phase by having developers edit the data from the institutions beforehand accordingly. The data editing was to be financed by the crowd-funding.
 

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Coding da Vinci 2016 - The Culture Hackathon in Hamburg

Following the feedback from the programmers and designers as well from the staff of the cultural institutions our Culture Hackathon will continue in Hamburg this year. The nationwide organisation of the hackathon has indeed produced great results to date, yet at the same time there have been loud calls for sustainability and durability of the relationships between creative people and cultural institutions. Although participants and persons from all parts of the republic who were interested in the hackathon had travelled to Berlin up to now, the creative minds dispersed again fairly quickly at the end of the event. This time, therefore, it is intended to organise a regional version of the cultural hackathon, Coding da Vinci Nord, with the aim to promote above all closer and, when possible, long-lasting relationships between developers and cultural institutions locally.

This year’s hackathon will be organised by a local event-organising team including, among others, different institutions and organisations in Hamburg. The founders of the event will provide advice and support to the team in the process.

The kick-off event will take place in “Mindspace Hamburg” in September, followed by six weeks of project development – and then we are eagerly looking forward to seeing what the far north will present us with in November.
 
The dates

  • Kick off and hack
    Saturday and Sunday, 17th/18th September 2016,start of the event 10.00 am in Mindspace Hamburg, Rödingsmarkt 9

  • Sprint:
    6 weeks time to realise cooperative projects

  • Presentation of prizes:
    Sunday, 6th November 2016, venue to be announced

Click here to register for the event via Eventbrite

Further information under https://codingdavinci.de/nord

Coding da Vinci 2017 - the Culture Hackathon back in Berlin

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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.
 
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Press Releases Coding da Vinci (PDF or HTML):

2017:
20.11.2017 - Save the Date: The Coding da Vinci Prize-giving ceremony at the Jewish Museum Berlin
12.10.2017 - When Hackers Make Cultural Data Dance - Coding da Vinci Berlin

2015:
22.06.2015 – ‘Coding da Vinci’ press meeting and awards ceremony – Germany’s first culture hackathon
21.04.2015 – “Coding da Vinci” – Germany’s first culture hackathon has a second round

2014:
08.07.2014 – ‘Coding da Vinci’ Culture Hackathon – Culture and digital content feed off each other
30.06.2014 – Awards ceremony on 6th July 2014: ‘Coding da Vinci’ – Germany’s first culture hackathon
10.04.2014 – “Coding da Vinci” – Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek organises Germany’s first culture hackathon

News entries

2017:
05.12.2017 - Coding da Vinci 2017: We still need many more hackathons!
25.10.2017 - Kicking Off Coding da Vinci in Berlin
25.09.2017 - Coding da Vinci the Culture Hackathon back in Berlin

2016:
11.11.2016 - Coding Da Vinci North: A full success for all participants
22.09.2016 - Coding da Vinci North – About the Sound of the Stars, Visiting Landmarks and Copper Gorillas
21.07.2016 - Coding da Vinci - Our Culture Hackathon in Hamburg

2015:
02.11.2015 - Wenn Kultureinrichtungen und Entwickler zusammenfinden: Coding da Vinci – Der Workshop bei „Zugang gestalten!“
05.07.2015 – The Coding da Vinci culture hackathon awards ceremony
22.06.2015 –
The Big-City Tile, Allegories and Sound Visualisations: The Finale of Coding da Vinci
08.05.2015 – ‘Collaborate or fail!’ – Coding da Vinci 2015. How it all began.
16.04.2015 – Coding da Vinci’ Culture Hackathon 2015: institutions and programmers gear up for data hack
16.02.2015 – Coding da Vinci 2015 – The Culture Hackathon needs support

2014:
08.07.2015 – ‘Coding da Vinci’ Culture Hackathon: Culture and digital content feed off each other
20.06.2015 –
‘Coding da Vinci’ – awards ceremony in Berlin on 6th July 2014
11.04.2015 –
“Coding da Vinci” – Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek organises Germany’s first culture hackathon

Documentation

Further documentation can be found on the website of Coding da Vinci including videos, photos and press releases.