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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Crawling Feminism

Crawling von Google-Bildern zu Suchbegriffen in verschiedenen Ländern, um deren Sicht auf Feminismus, Freiheit und Gleichberechtigung zu verdeutlichen
mobile app
web app
website
visualization
Westfalen-Ruhrgebiet 2019

ChronoAtlas

Web-Portal, das exploratives Stöbern unterstützt und interaktiven Zugang zu historischen Landkarten vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert ermöglicht
maps
remix
tool
visualization
web app
website
Ost 2018
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
Trinational award: Crossing borders & uniting data

BackToTheMap

Application uses React Native technology, implements interesting solutions of timeline and map display, including historical maps and data.
mobile app
Ost³ 2022

Battlesim

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

Verbotene Autoren

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

Global Postmaster

Spiel zur Vermittlung geographischen Wissens - Städte müssen Ländern, Länder ihren Positionen auf der Weltkarte zugeordnet werden
Süd 2019
Most FAIR

ansights

ansights verknüpft Dokumente anhand ihres Inhaltes mit thematisch passenden Artikeln des Deutschen Reichsanzeigers und Preußischen Staatsanzeigers.
application
data enrichment
network analysis
script
tool
visualization
web app
website
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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