Save the Date: Die Coding da Vinci Preisverleihung im Jüdischen Museum Berlin

Save the Date: The Coding da Vinci Prize-giving Ceremony in the Jewish Museum Berlin

20.11.2017

Joint press release by the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library), the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany e. V., the Servicestelle Digitalisierung (Digitisation Service Centre) Berlin (digiS) and Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

Berlin, 20th November 2017

Ladies and Gentlemen, dear colleagues,

the time has come. On 2nd December 2017 we will be revealing the winners of this year’s Cultural Hackathon Coding da Vinci. The programming competition about the nation’s digitised cultural data is heading into the final straight. Apps for smartphones, Twitterfeeds, Big-Data visualisation, interactive websites, Virtual Reality. High ambitions of the 100 or so participants. In their free time they are creating new projects from photos, 3D scans, digital reproductions of texts and paintings.

We invite you to come and experience approx. twenty digital projects live together with us. They are competing for the six coveted Coding da Vinci prizes in the categories:

  • The most technical
  • The most useful
  • The best design
  • The funniest hack
  • Out of competition
  • Everybody’s darling

Innovative developers, culture enthusiasts and designers have worked hard for six weeks, motivated only by the desire to create new products from the digitised cultural assets of Berlin and its surroundings. Perhaps you will travel with us around the world with 80 historical tickets in a new online game. Or you will see just how much fun it is to sort 1000 beetles on the screen according to colour with the App wOgus . The algorithm Deep Water promises to split the watermarks of the Leipzig University Library’s paper collection into your favourite photographic motifs. Three of 24 ideas which were pitched at the Coding da Vinci kick-off at the HTW (University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economics in Berlin). At the moment it’s only a few lines of code, small sketches and a lot of enthusiasm. The Hackdash resembles a black box. Therefore we are eagerly awaiting the presentation of the completed projects. Which idea has got what it takes to become a project? Who has kept up in the sprint? Which projects will capture the jury’s imagination and which that of the public? Who will win the prize in one of the six categories? Share the excitement with us on 2nd December 2017 in the Jewish Museum Berlin. Refreshments will be provided.  

Coding da Vinci – The cultural hackathon is a collaboration project of the  Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB), the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany e.V. (OKF DE), the Servicestelle Digitalisierung (Digitisation Service Centre) Berlin (digiS) and Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. (WMDE) and an official contribution to the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018 in Germany (SHARING HERITAGE). 
 
Further information

Coding da Vinci – The cultural hackathon: the prize-giving ceremony 
 
When?
Saturday, 2nd December 2017
12:30 pm to 6:00 pm, admission from 11:30 am onwards
 
Where?
Jüdisches Museum Berlin (Jewish Museum Berlin)
Veranstaltungssaal (Event Hall) 
Lindenstraße 9 - 14
10969 Berlin
https://www.jmberlin.de/​ 

Admission is free – please register for the event

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Coding da Vinci: Impressions of the cultural hackathon since 2014 on our topic page

Project coordination  for the organisers                                                       
Barbara Fischer, Curator for cultural partnerships
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
E-Mail: codingdavinci [at] zib.de (codingdavinci[at]zib[dot]de)

Download press release on Artefakt Berlin: https://www.artefakt-berlin.de/fileadmin/files/Projekte/Coding_da_Vinci/pdfs/CdV_2017_PM_Einladung.pdf​ 

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