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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#hammerpairs

Wir adaptieren eine neue Spieloberfläche des CollectivePairsSpieles für 876 unterschiedlichste Hämmer!
game
remix
Ost³ 2022

imperii-vis

Website mit intuitiver Benutzeroberfläche ermöglicht erleichterte Datenabfrage von Regesten des Mittelalters
website
Berlin 2015

Schreib doch mal wieder!

Herstellung individuellen Briefpapiers - Motiv oder Design erscheinen per Zufall oder anhand eines Namensgenerators
web app
Ost 2018
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!
application
desktop app
game
visualization
VR
Niedersachsen 2020
Best design

FabSeal

In einer Online-Ausstellung kann man sich durch die automatisch erzeugten 3D-Objekte von historischen Siegeln klicken und erneut physisch herstellen.
tool
visualization
web app
Niedersachsen 2020

#halligallipairs

Aus 395 Objekten des Naturkundemuseums Stuttgart sind 68 fotografisch festgehalten: aus diesen entsteht das fantastische Paare-Spiel #halligallipairs
application
desktop app
game
website
Baden-Württemberg 2022
Most technical, Most innovative

ANTLITZ.NINJA

Gesichtspartien aus Werken der Kunstgeschichte kreativ verschmelzen lassen
web app
game
Rhein-Main 2018

GarGOyle

Helft dem kleinen Dämonen Samy ins Münster zu kommen und lernt dabei mehr über das Freiburger Münster, seine Wasserspeier und die Stadt Freiburg!
game
mobile app
storytelling
Baden-Württemberg 2022

Flugblättlefieber

Besucher:innen des Haus der Geschichte BW verteilen in einem Spiel historische Flugblätter auf dem Stuttgarter Marienplatz in den 1920ern.
game
maps
visualization
Baden-Württemberg 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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