Our Projects

We always work on projects that show the value of open data for a society. Often the analyzed data enable very new perspectives.

01.03.2024

Open Data HackDays am 1. und 2.3.2024

Der Open Data Day am 1. Samstag im März ist ein jährlich stattfindendes Ereignis, um international auf die Bedeutung offener Daten hinzuweisen.

Video der Abschlusspräsentationen.

Rund um diesen …

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27.07.2023

CoDaKaI - Coding, Daten und Ka-I

Was hat es mit Coding, Daten und KI auf sich?

Wir nutzen Ka-I (Karlsruher Intelligenz) um Licht ins digitale Dunkel zu bringen.

In einer lockeren Workshopreihe könnt Ihr Euch mit den wichtigsten …

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19.05.2023

Daten.Cafe

Daten.Cafe wants to provide basic knowledge in data literacy in a simple way. Free access to the application and the results form the basis for this. The application allows learning and practicing the …

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21.04.2023

Sensor Workshop

Sensor workshops will take place in April and Mai 2023 at ZKM. Workshop language will be German.

Dates, 15:00-18:00 each:

Registration via ZKM. Cost see ZKM.

Environmental …

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04.03.2023

Open Data Day on March 4, 2023

The Open Data Day is an annual event to highlight the importance of open data internationally. On this day local groups organize self-organized events. Last year (2022) there were 153 events …

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23.09.2022

Sensor Workshop

A new series of sensor workshops will start in September 2022 start at ZKM. Workshop language will be German.

Dates, 15:00-18:00 each:

Registration via ZKM. Cost see …

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05.03.2022

Open Data Day am 5.3.2022

The Open Data Day is an annual event to highlight the importance of open data internationally. On this day local groups run self-organized events.

This year these events around open data will take …

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14.01.2022

Sensor Workshop

A new series of sensor workshops will start in January 2022 start at ZKM, as part of the exhibition Biomedien. Workshop language will be German.

Registration via ZKM:

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02.12.2021

Piazza Conference - Budget planning made easy

Municipal administration is characterized by, amongst other features, municipal budget planning. Many municipalities publish their budgets on the Internet as open data - but usually only as pdf files. …

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04.10.2021

Open Data Portals

CKAN is a widely used system for open data portals. In addition to the web application, it offers automated retrieval via a programming interface (CKAN API). Available data can be searched and …

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17.09.2021

Smart Friedrichsplatz

A project for “intelligent” irrigation is being installed at Friedrichsplatz. Soil moisture at various depths and other climate parameters are measured regularly and transmitted to the IoT …

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12.03.2021

Critical Sensors Workshop

We’re planning to prepare a number of workshops on different topics, related to the Critical-Zones exhibition.. Register at ZKM:

Environmental sensors

are the …

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06.03.2021

Open Data Day am 6.3.2021

The Open Data Day is an annual event to highlight the importance of open data internationally. On this day local groups organize self-organized events. Last year (2020) there were more than 300 …

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03.02.2021

Accessible Open Data

Can communal budgets be analyzed and evaluated without first having to learn to program?

We have held several events in various formats on this question and now want to process the experience gained …

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24.10.2020

Critical Zones Tour - Open Data, Oct. 24, 2020

Guided Tour/Workshop at Critical Zones exhibition at ZKM

How can we better understand the critical zone? How can we understand the numerous processes that make up its fragile equilibrium, often …

OK Lab Karlsruhe On hold (corona)
07.03.2020

Open Data Day on March 7, 2020

The Open Data Day is an annual event to highlight the importance of open data internationally. On this day local groups organize self-organized events. Last year (2019) there were more than 400 …

OK Lab Karlsruhe Closed
19.02.2020

Climate Watch

The codefor Community aims to display climate data of as many cities as possible on a common website.

We contribute to this project supplying data from Karlsruhe.

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31.01.2020

ROGL - Regional Open Government Labs

In 2020, the Federal Ministry of the Interior is planning an initiative for Regional Open Government Laboratories (ROGL). In up to 16 laboratories, new collaborations between administration, politics, …

OK Lab Karlsruhe Terminated (not approved)
21.01.2020

Climate Protection Plan Karlsruhe

The city of Karlsruhe presented the draft of the 2030 climate protection concept to the population in a participation process. We want to support and improve the associated calculation models and the …

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01.10.2019

Communal Trees

The tree register of the city of Karslruhe contains the geo-coordinates and type of all urban trees. The map shows the positions on a map, which also shows population and area for all districts. …

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01.07.2019

Environmental sensors

We can also generate open data ourselves by recording measured values with various sensors and sharing them with others. We always show in open workshops, e.g. the participants build a DIY particulate …

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01.06.2019

Transparenz.Cafe

The transparency portal of the city of Karlsruhe targets primarily interested specialists who want to realize projects with the data, which may then also be of interest to the general public. With the …

OK Lab Karlsruhe On hold (corona)
20.06.2018

farmshops.eu map

Overview map of farm shops, markets, milk vending machines and other direct marketers from the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The map receives all of its data via a script from …

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09.10.2017

Open Sense

Open Sense provides Android sensor widgets for the openSenseMap project (https://opensensemap.org). The app makes it possible to observe open sensor data such as temperature, emission of fine dust or …

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08.10.2017

Federal election 2017 results by districts, Karlsruhe

Every district in Karlsruhe is different - how did that affect the election? We took a closer look at this using various statistics.

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24.09.2017

Karlsruhe election map 2017

Various exciting visualizations of the Karlsruhe election dates for the Bundestag election 2017. Interactive map and analyzes.

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28.04.2017

Communal budgets Baden-Württemberg

Machine-readable variants of the municipal budget Baden-Württemberg and the administrative regulation product and account framework

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15.12.2015

Rental prices in Karlsruhe

This project visualizes the rental prices in Karlsruhe on the basis of real estate advertisements.

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02.03.2015

Street Markets

This project visualizes on a map where the weekly market is in Karlsruhe. You can filter for the current day or display all. The markets currently taking place are marked in green.

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23.02.2015

Access Map

Small project from Berlin that uses a slider to visualize how barrier-free local transport systems are by adding non-barrier-free stations be erased. Now also in Karlsruhe.

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20.02.2015

Street names

Visualizes the streets of Karlsruhe named after people and their genders.

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