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.

Wasserspeyer

Europa aus der Sicht eines deutschen Soldatens und der von ihm zwischen 1914 und 1945 aufgenommenen Bilder
Projekttyp
website
Everybody's darling

Herzog VR August

Wir erwecken die Herzog-August-Bibliothek zum virtuellen Leben. Das Bücherrad darf dort zwar nicht angefasst werden, aber wir wollen am Rad drehen!
Projekttyp
application
desktop app
game
visualization
VR

Plantala

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

past forward

Anhand von Filmausschnitten eine Reise durch die Zeit zwischen Jahrhundertwende und Weimarer Republik erleben
Projekttyp
web app

imperii-vis

Website mit intuitiver Benutzeroberfläche ermöglicht erleichterte Datenabfrage von Regesten des Mittelalters
Projekttyp
website
Best design

SnailSnap

Aus einem Portraitfoto wird ein Mosaik aus Schneckengehäusen - sozusagen ein Schneckenselfie
Projekttyp
desktop app
visualization

MadMemory

Online-Spiel, das dazu einlädt, sich genauer mit Wörtern aus dem Rheinischen Mitmachwörterbuch und dem Sächsischen Wörterbuch zu beschäftigen
Projekttyp
web app
game

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.

Deutsches Textarchiv, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Hidden Kosmos & Reconstructing Alexander von Humboldt's "Kosmos-Lectures", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Alexander von Humboldts Kosmos-Vorträge

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
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