Since its inception in 2014, the culture hackathon Coding da Vinci has brought together the cultural sector with creative technology communities to explore the creative potential of digital cultural heritage. Over a several-week sprint phase hackathon teams, together with representatives of cultural institutions, develop working prototypes --for example apps, websites, data visualisations, games or interactive installations-- that show surprising and inspiring new ways to communicate and make use of institutions' collections and artifacts in the digital age.

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Coding da Vinci - Berlin 2017

Das Coding da Vinci-Playbook

Step by step to your own culture hackathon

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Coding da Vinci has become a movement for open cultural data: Become a part of it now!

With the Coding da Vinci Playbook, you can run your own culture hackathons. It works like a cookbook: try out the whole menu, individual courses, or just certain ingredients - according to your taste. Benefit from many years of experience from a total of 14 Coding da Vinci editions, which guides you step by step through the organization of the entire process - from the provision of data to the creative "magic moment" of the kick-off to the presentation of the results.

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The potential of open cultural data

... is shown by the creative digital projects made by, to date, over 2000 hackathon participants, on the basis of hundreds of datasets contributed by almost 200 cultural institutions.

Institutionen
362 Institutions
Datensets
488 Data sets
Projekte
217 Projects

Projects

All apps, websites, data visualizations, games, interactive installations and even hardware developed at Coding da Vinci on the basis of open cultural data are available here permanently and under open licenses.

All Projects
Publikumspreis

Troia erleben

Unser Projekt hat zum Ziel, Troia erlebbar zu machen. Es richtet sich an Museumsbesucher und Troia-Interessierte.
application
desktop app
game
mobile app
storytelling
visualization
web app
website
Baden-Württemberg 2022

FLEXT@cdv

Datensätze unterschiedlichster Art können einfach eingelesen und angezeigt werden - so wird Kulturgütern digitales Leben eingehaucht
data enrichment
Berlin 2015

Musikus

Interaktiver Museumsführer und Spielzeug zugleich
mobile app
game
Berlin 2015
Most technical

Kurbelkamera

Projektion alter Filme auf eine Leinwand und Interaktion mit diesen Streifen
physical computing
Berlin 2015

Battlesim

Historische Schlachten simulieren, visualisieren und realitätsnah miterleben
desktop app
game
Rhein-Main 2018

Wasserspeyer

Europa aus der Sicht eines deutschen Soldatens und der von ihm zwischen 1914 und 1945 aufgenommenen Bilder
website
Berlin 2015

Kaiserpanorama VR+

Interaktive EInblicke in die Geschichte mithilfe einer VR-Brille und den Funktionen eines historischen Kaiserpanoramas
Süd 2019

Visiting Landmarks

Geolocation-Collection-Game, das den Besuch eines denkmalgeschützten Gebäudes registriert, mit Infos belohnt und der eigenen Sammlung “hinzufügt”
mobile app
website
game
Nord 2016

Daten

The digital treasures that more than 350 cultural institutions have made available to Coding da Vinci over the years remain open for reuse - all under free licenses, of course.

All Datasets