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kulturerbe.niedersachsen.de: Lower Saxony's cultural memory
Our publication "Federal Diversity – Global Networking: Strategies of the Federal States for the Cultural Heritage in the Digital World" (released in September 2016) for the first time...
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...
New collections: Photographers Fritz Zapp and Peter H. Fürst in the Rheinisches Bildarchiv of Cologne
Fritz Zapp taught himself photography – as a skilled house painter, it was only after he relocated from his birthplace of Kleinbliersbach in the Bergisches Land to Hoffnungsthal in 1910...
When East Was Still Up: Historical Maps and Sea Charts in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
“North is up”: Today’s seldom questioned convention of defining the cardinal direction North on the upper edge of maps and sea charts is actually a relatively young approach...
The Big-city Tile, Allegories and Sound Visualisations: The Finale of Coding da Vinci
The hackers involved in the Coding da Vinci Culture Hackathon have had ten weeks to develop their ideas using material from 47 data sets received from 33 cultural institutions.
On political cabaret and the dangers of not voting: historical election posters in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
“The best place for a politician,” runs a famous line by the German comedian Loriot, “is on an election poster. On a poster he is bearable, silent and easy to get rid of.”