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To the south! Coding da Vinci Kick-Off in Munich
In this year, our Culture Hackathon Coding da Vinci starts in the south of Germany for the first time: 30 cultural institutions from Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg provide their data...
Coding da Vinci Rhein-Main: Save the Date!
The upcoming Culture Hackathon in Mainz will focus on the Rhein-Main-Region (Rhine-Main area) with the college and university cities of Aschaffenburg, Darmstadt, Frankfurt/Main, Gießen,...
The German Federal Cultural Foundation supports cultural hackathon!
There is great joy about the official decision announced on 21 June 2018: within the scope of the programme Kultur digital (working title) of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (KSB), the...
Save the Date: Coding da Vinci Ost – Our Culture Hackathon in Leipzig!
Since 2014, the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek has, along with its partners Servicestelle Digitalisierung Berlin, Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland and Wikimedia Deutschland, been...
Coding da Vinci 2017: We still need many more hackathons!
“It doesn’t matter who wins. We’ve all benefited from the last six weeks.” Léontine Meijer-van Mensch, Programme Director of the Jüdisches Museum Berlin (Jewish Museum Berlin),...
Congratulations! The Service Centre Digitisation of the Federal State of Berlin digiS is celebrating the 5th anniversary of its funding programme
The Service Centre Digitisation of the Federal State of Berlin is an institution for interdisciplinary advice on support and coordination of digitisation projects and – just like the...
Save the Date: The Coding da Vinci Prize-giving Ceremony in the Jewish Museum Berlin
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...
Kicking off Coding da Vinci in Berlin
Every good event contains a huge scandal. This is also true of the kick-off weekend of Coding da Vinci, our cultural hackathon, in Berlin on 21st/22nd October 2017. Now in this case,...
When Hackers Make Cultural Data Dance - Coding da Vinci Berlin
Coding da Vinci starts on 21 October. Coding da Vinci is the cultural hackathon in Germany: Freely re-usable applications arise from freely licenced and digitalised cultural assets. For...
Coding da Vinci the Culture Hackathon Back in Berlin
Since 2014, the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) has been organising, together with its partners Servicestelle Digitalisierung Berlin (Service Centre Digitalisation...
We are the DDB: The Museum of Art and Design Hamburg
With around 500,000 objects from 4,000 years of the history of mankind, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) (Museum of Art and Design Hamburg) is one of the most important...
Willing to share?
The question of the willingness to share digitally and to make digital participation possible assumes that the cultural heritage institutions (museums, collections and archives) have an...
#12of12: The Archives Department of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek and the Archivportal-D – A Portrait in Twelve Pictures
On a very rainy Monday afternoon in Berlin, I take the train to Stuttgart to visit my colleagues from the Archives Department and the Archivportal-D, the sector-specific access to the...
Save the Date: OPEN! – Conference for digital innovation
For the second time OPEN! – Conference for digital innovation – is taking place on the 7th of December 2016 in Stuttgart. The launch of the conference last year focused on the areas...
Coding da Vinci North – About the Sound of the Stars, Visiting Landmarks and Copper Gorillas
This year the regional edition of our culture hackathon has been published for the first time, to the delight of Philipp Geisler, the head of the project. Justice has been done to the...
We are the DDB: The Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek Fulda
In 1776 the Fürstbischof (Prince-Bishop) Heinrich von Bibra founded a public library in Fulda. It consisted of holdings which had been collected for the most part in the convent library...
Coding da Vinci Nord – Our Culture Hackathon in Hamburg
Since 2014 the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, together with its partners Servicestelle Digitalisierung Berlin, Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland and Wikimedia Deutschland, has hosted...
Looking beyond Google for online access to EU culture and knowledge
Internet users in the US have access to a much broader body of knowledge and culture than internet users in the EU. According to Ellen Euler we should not see Google Books as a threat...
I am @europeanaeu: Find your hero(ine) in Europeana
From Asta Nielsen to Zoroaster , there are lots of famous faces from history in Europeana. Old, young, familiar or sometimes even forgotten. But who inspires you, and why?
We want you...
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek at the large trade fairs in March
If you visit the CeBIT in Hanover or the Library Congress and the Book Fair in Leipzig in March, you are very welcome to pay us a visit at our stands. This year we are present at the...