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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Kaiserpanorama VR+

Interaktive EInblicke in die Geschichte mithilfe einer VR-Brille und den Funktionen eines historischen Kaiserpanoramas
Süd 2019

UHF-converter

VR-Game: Erstellen eines UHF-Converters zum Empfangen von Westfernsehen in der ehemaligen DDR
application
game
storytelling
VR
Ost³ 2022

Stuttg'Art

"Stuttg'Art" macht Kunst im öffentlichen Raum erfahrbar. In Form einer Geocaching App schicken wir euch auf die Suche nach Kunstwerken in Stuttgart.
application
game
mobile app
storytelling
Baden-Württemberg 2022

DeliveryDetector

Historische Posthornklänge weisen den Nutzer auf die Ankunft von DHL-Autos vor seiner Haustür hin
application
physical computing
tool
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
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
Unusual use of data

Klang der Sterne

Mithilfe der Sonification lassen sich nicht visuell erfassbare Bewegungen von Sternen wahrnehmen
physical computing
sonification
Nord 2016

GastroGrantler

In der Rolle einer historischen Persönlichkeit entdeckt man in der virtuellen Stammtisch-App alltägliche und skurrile Gerichte vergangener Zeiten
Süd 2019

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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