International Hackathon for Art History
We are very impressed by the vast number of 159 applications we have received. That is four times more than we have places! This shows that the topic is of high interest and there exists an active global community. It was hard to make a selection out of all these fantastic people with very interesting […]
Art History and Computer Science are two disciplines with different approaches in doing research. Nevertheless, the digital material on art that is increasingly provided by museums or other cultural institutions with their online collections is interesting for both sides. While art historians have new possibilities to access, use, analyze and interpret their source material, computer […]
The word “hackathon” is a blend of the words “hack” (in the sense of exploratory programming) and “marathon”. The hackathon Coding Dürer is modeled after the hackathon Coding Da Vinci organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation, Wikimedia Germany and others. Its goal is to encourage institutions to liberate their data and bring this data into […]
Digital Art History can only be successful in close cooperation with Information Science. At the same time, Information Science has a great interest in working together with the visual Humanities and their cultural content. Working with mixed methods from both disciplines promises interesting results from which both sides benefit. This is reason enough to bring […]