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
Most technical, Everybody's darling

JibJib

App, die auf anschauliche und spielerische Art den Zugang zur Vogelkunde ermöglicht und eine Bestimmung der Arten erleichtert
web app
Ost 2018
Everybody's darling

Goll Pairs

Un jeu de paires qui immerge les joueur.se.s profondemment dans les vies du couple artistique Claire et Yvan Goll
website
game
Saar-Lor-Lux 2020
Everybody's darling

Goll Pairs

Paar-Suchspiel, das tief in die Lebensgeschichten des Külnstler-Ehepaars Claire und Yvan Goll eintauchen lässt
website
game
Saar-Lor-Lux 2020

RingRing

Auf spielerische Weise historische Telefonapparate audiovisuell erleben
desktop app
game
mobile app
Rhein-Main 2018

Verbotene Autoren

Werke und Autorinnen und Autoren, die unter den Nationalsozialisten verboten waren, in einer App vereint
mobile app
Berlin 2014

Kaiserpanorama VR+

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

Battlesim

Historische Schlachten simulieren, visualisieren und realitätsnah miterleben
desktop app
game
Rhein-Main 2018
Most curious approach

ScrapHumor

ScrapHumor is a card game which merges two datasets seamlessly and it is funny! SrcapHumor is targeted to the youth.
game
remix
web app
Baden-Württemberg 2022

AnimalBeatbox

Aus Tierstimmensamples lassen sich eigene Kompositionen erzeugen und der tierische Chor wird auch noch vorgestellt
remix
web app
game
Ost 2018

Majorelle Mystery

Escape-Game virtuel situé dans la fameuse Villa Majorelle à Nancy – y compris ses ancien.ne.s bâtisseur.se.s et propriétaires.
mobile app
game
Saar-Lor-Lux 2020

Craftspeople

Interaktive App, um Kindern auf spielerische Weise Handwerksberufe mithilfe von Lithographien nahezubringen
Süd 2019

archiv criminalis

Gelangweilt von den heutigen Verbrechen? Dann schau doch lieber mal, was es im 19. Jahrhundert für spannende Verbrechen zu entdecken gibt.
application
maps
storytelling
visualization
web app
website
Schleswig-Holstein 2021

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.

All Datasets