The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) is hosting, together with its partners, the first German culture hackathon. Participants are invited to present their results in Berlin, followed by an awards ceremony.

Under the slogan ‘Coding da Vinci’, for the first time in Germany, programmers, designers and games enthusiasts were invited to liaise with cultural institutions during a hackathon to develop digital applications based on cultural information.

After a ten week period working on their ideas and applications, using cultural data in digital format, the teams of developers, designers and games enthusiasts will present their results on 6^th July. A jury will select the best and most useful applications and ideas in five categories.

The results from the ‘Coding da Vinci’ project will be published under open licence.

All interested parties are warmly invited to attend the awards ceremony!

Coding da Vinci – Presentation and public awards ceremony

Sunday 6^th July 2014, 10.30 am – 4pm

Jewish Museum Berlin, Großer Saal, Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin

Programme:

Doors open: 10 am

10.30am          Welcome address by organisers

11am               Presentations by teams

2pm                 Snacks & jury deliberations

3pm                 Awards ceremony

Event ends approx 4pm

The Jury:

Gabriele Beger, Director of Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg,

Anja Jentzsch, eCloud Project Manager, Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland,

Thorsten Koch, mathematician, developer, Head of Digitisation Service Center, Berlin

Uwe Müller, Head of Coordination, Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata Product Manager, Wikimedia Deutschland

Awards categories:

Most Technical – Most Useful – Best Design – Funniest Hack – Out of Competition

Awards

Arduinos & Tact Arduino Shield Sensors

Coaching in the field of your choice by Marian Dörk (e.g. data visualisation & project development)

Trip to Amsterdam and admission to Rijksmuseum

Trip to Hamburg to Chaos Communication Congress 2014

Trip to Weimar & admission to UNESCO Museum

Coding da Vinci – the Culture Hackathon

The event is open to all. All interested parties are invited to the presentations event and awards ceremony.

Registration: http://codingdavinci.de/anmeldung/

Further information: http://codingdavinci.de/

Twitter: @codingdavinci

Hashtag: #codingdavinci

Coding da Vinci – the Culture Hackathon is organised jointly by the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB), the Berlin Digitisation Service Center (digiS), the Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland (OKFN) and Wikimedia Deutschland.