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.

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Unusual use of data

Klang der Sterne

Mithilfe der Sonification lassen sich nicht visuell erfassbare Bewegungen von Sternen wahrnehmen
physical computing
sonification
Nord 2016
Most FAIR

ansights

ansights verknüpft Dokumente anhand ihres Inhaltes mit thematisch passenden Artikeln des Deutschen Reichsanzeigers und Preußischen Staatsanzeigers.
application
data enrichment
network analysis
script
tool
visualization
web app
website
Baden-Württemberg 2022

ChronoAtlas

Web-Portal, das exploratives Stöbern unterstützt und interaktiven Zugang zu historischen Landkarten vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert ermöglicht
maps
remix
tool
visualization
web app
website
Ost 2018

Plantala

Malen. Strahlen. Plantala! Diese wunderschöne Anti-Burn-Out-Anwendung verbindet historische Lehrtafeln mit digitaler Kreativität!
application
data enrichment
game
remix
visualization
web app
website
Niedersachsen 2020

Verbotene Autoren

Werke und Autorinnen und Autoren, die unter den Nationalsozialisten verboten waren, in einer App vereint
mobile app
Berlin 2014
Funniest hack

webweb

Die Webmuster und ihre Entstehung werden interaktiv, spielerisch und räumlich erfahrbar gemacht.
AR
game
web app
Ost³ 2022
Most technical

#Tagmotion, Tags im Museum

Erstellung von Anwendungen, die Menschen zur emotionalen Auseinandersetzung mit Tagebucheinträgen auffordern.
application
data enrichment
desktop app
web app
Ost³ 2022

Kunterbunt

Gestalte die Dionysos-Mosaike mit frischen Farben neu und ergänze fehlerhafte Stellen nach deinen Vorstellungen.
application
game
remix
tool
web app
Nieder.Rhein.Land 2021
Best design

MIDIOLA

Smartphone-App, mit der man Notenrollen für selbstspielende Klaviere anhören und filmen kann, um so live zu musizieren
mobile app
web app
Berlin 2015

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.

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