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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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.

Most curious approach

ScrapHumor

ScrapHumor is a card game which merges two datasets seamlessly and it is funny! SrcapHumor is targeted to the youth.
Projekttyp
game
remix
web app

DDBRest

Verbindung aller API-Schnittstellen der DDB in kleinen Paketen
Projekttyp
tool

Atlas 1833

Application de cartes à ba base d'un atlas datant de 1833, qui montre la frontière entre la Prusse et la France au niveau de la Sarre.
Projekttyp
website

GarGOyle

Helft dem kleinen Dämonen Samy ins Münster zu kommen und lernt dabei mehr über das Freiburger Münster, seine Wasserspeier und die Stadt Freiburg!
Projekttyp
game
mobile app
storytelling

Gargoyles Tower Defense

Unser Tower Defense richtet sich an Jugendliche, die sich für die Münster Wasserspeier begeistern sollen. Es ist ein lustiges und interessantes TowerDefense spielt mit kleinen Herausforderungen.
Projekttyp
web app

Münz-Memory

Online-Memory-Spiel mit den Münzen des KENOM-Projekts als Motive
Projekttyp
website
game
Best design

COVER.BOUTIQUE

App zum Erstellen von individuellen Handyhüllen - mit Bildern aus unterschiedlichen Kulturinstitutionen

Musikus

Interaktiver Museumsführer und Spielzeug zugleich
Projekttyp
mobile app
game

ChronoAtlas

Web-Portal, das exploratives Stöbern unterstützt und interaktiven Zugang zu historischen Landkarten vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert ermöglicht
Projekttyp
maps
remix
tool
visualization
web app
website

Visiting Landmarks

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

Altlas

Geographische Erkundungstour, bei der sich mithilfe der Anwendung Pläne aus alten Atlanten interaktiv mit neuen Karten vergleichen lassen
Projekttyp
desktop app
VR

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.