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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HAMMERLORD

Rette die magische Welt der Zwerge! Mithilfe von Logik, Cleverness und HÄMMER!
application
game
script
storytelling
visualization
Baden-Württemberg 2022
Most user-centered

Horizonte

Mit dieser Web-App lernt man nicht nur die Arbeit des Künstlers Jo Enzweiler kennen, man wird auch selbst zum/zur Künstler*in.
web app
game
Saar-Lor-Lux 2020
Best design

MKGo

3 in 1: App, Tourguide und Spiel - ideal für den nächsten Besuch im MKG Hamburg
mobile app
game
Nord 2016

Der Großstadtziegel

Autonomes Gerät in der Form eines Ziegels, das Geschichten audiovisuell aufnimmt, speichert und an eine zentrale Plattform sendet
physical computing
Berlin 2015

VisualizingDaVinci

Dieser Knowledge Graph visualisiert den Impact, den Coding da Vinci bisher schon hatte und beantwortet viele Fragestellungen zum Projekt.
data enrichment
tool
visualization
Westfalen-Ruhrgebiet 2019

FLEXT@cdv

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