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The last weekend in April saw 150 hackersgathering together at the offices of Wikimedia Deutschland in Berlin. It was loads of digitized cultural heritage data of 33 GLAM institutions that bribed them to come. All of the data under free license. The offices were crammed with people for the entire weekend. Data was presented, ideas pitches, workshops held and in between the hacking sound was in the air. A lovely tune. It was the kick off toCoding da Vinci the cultural hackathon in Germany in its second edition. Wikimedia Deutschlandtogether with the German Digital Library, the German aggregator to EUROPEANA, the German section of the Open Knowledge Foundation and digiS, a regional service for digitizing, organizes this programming competition. In July a jury will choose the winners among the participating projects. By now 18 are registered at thehackdash. WMDE supported several GLAMS integratingtheir data directly to Wikimedia Commons. But moredata needs to be uploaded. Both historical movie sequences from the early 20th century, insect scans and butterflies, digitized paintings, soundsamples of many thousand languages, well over 45 datasets open to reuse and waiting for you to explore it. Participation is still possible, just have a look on the data and feel free to start off your own project.For more info listen to this Englishpodcast.And check the WMDEblogpost.
Andy Mabbett,Wikimedian in Residence at theRoyal Society of Chemistry, visited Berlin to give a talk to early career chemists from all over Europe at the10th Delegates Assembly of theEuropean Young Chemists' Network.
