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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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.

Funniest hack

Appsolutly Old

Mit Appsolutly Old werden historische Daten zum Leben erweckt und an die gegenwärtigen Medien angepasst!
Projekttyp
application
mobile app
remix
visualization
Most technical

FLECTURE

AI generierte Fashion am eigenen Spiegelbild erleben. Experience AI generated fashion in your own reflection.
Projekttyp
application
AR
physical computing

MadMemory

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

Troia erleben

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

Free Bugs

Käfer digital organisch Krabbeln lassen, untersuchen und vergleichen.
Projekttyp
web app

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

CLOCKS ATTACK!!!

In dem Videospiel CLOCKS ATTACK!!! bewahren Spieler verschiedene Figuren aus Kunst und Kultur davor, von Uhren aus Schloss Benrath geweckt zu werden.
Projekttyp
game
remix
web app

Birdory

Spielerische Zuordnung verschiedener Vogelstimmen
Projekttyp
web app
game

Klingende Mathemodelle in VR

Mathematische Modell nicht nur zum Anschauen sondern auch zum Anhören - klingende Mathemodelle in Virtual-Reality ebend.
Projekttyp
sonification
visualization
VR
web app

EthnoTier

App, mit der Kinder ein Orchester aus einheimischen Tieren formieren können
Projekttyp
mobile app

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.