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.

All Projects
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
Everybody's darling

Herzog VR August

We're bringing the Herzog August Library alive in Virtual Reality. You're not allowed to touch the real book wheel there, but we want to spin it!
application
desktop app
game
visualization
VR
Niedersachsen 2020

Languini

Linguistische Informationen zu ca. 8.000 Sprachen werden mithilfe von App und Quiz einem breiten Publikum zugänglich gemacht
mobile app
Berlin 2015
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

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
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
Publikumspreis

Troia erleben

Unser Projekt hat zum Ziel, Troia erlebbar zu machen. Es richtet sich an Museumsbesucher und Troia-Interessierte.
application
desktop app
game
mobile app
storytelling
visualization
web app
website
Baden-Württemberg 2022

Soundwall-App

App spielt Musikinstrumente und Videos, die ihre Spielweise dokumentieren, ab
AR
mobile app
Berlin 2014

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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