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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 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...
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...