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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Funniest hack

Äpfel und Birnen

Aufgaben lösen und dabei Informationen über die physischen, geschichtlichen und optischen Eigenschaften der Obstsorten erhalten
web app
game
Ost 2018

KIS - "Kunst im Städtle"

"Ist das Kunst oder ist das nur nett?" - bewerte schwäbische Ortschaften und lass Dich dabei von historischen Prominenten inspirieren!
data enrichment
game
mobile app
remix
storytelling
web app
Baden-Württemberg 2022

CLOCKS ATTACK!!!

In dem Videospiel CLOCKS ATTACK!!! bewahren Spieler verschiedene Figuren aus Kunst und Kultur davor, von Uhren aus Schloss Benrath geweckt zu werden.
game
remix
web app
Nieder.Rhein.Land 2021
Most user-centered

Horizons

Cette application n'illustre pas seulement lòeuvre de l'artiste Jo Enzweiler, mais elle transforme les utilisateur.rice.s en artistes.
web app
game
Saar-Lor-Lux 2020
Most technical

Alt-Berlin

IOS-App zur interaktiven Erforschung Berliner Stadtgeschichte mithilfe von Karten und Bildern
mobile app
Berlin 2014

webARei

Augmented Reality-Guide (mit Bildern, Videos, Texten und Sounds) für die Weberei im LWL-Industriemuseum TextilWerk Bocholt
AR
Westfalen-Ruhrgebiet 2019

Kleid-er-leben

Als Besucher des Historischen Museums Frankfurt historische Kleider per Funktionsanzug am eigenen Körper erfahren
VR
Rhein-Main 2018

Paracosm - mindful maps

Paracosm is an interactive game which uses historical maps and medieval engravings to put you in the state of relaxation and mindfulness.
game
mobile app
web app
Ost³ 2022

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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