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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Most technical, Most innovative

ANTLITZ.NINJA

Gesichtspartien aus Werken der Kunstgeschichte kreativ verschmelzen lassen
web app
game
Rhein-Main 2018

Der Großstadtziegel

Autonomes Gerät in der Form eines Ziegels, das Geschichten audiovisuell aufnimmt, speichert und an eine zentrale Plattform sendet
physical computing
Berlin 2015

KIS - "Kunst im Städtle"

"Ist das Kunst oder ist das nur nett?" - bewerte schwäbische Ortschaften und lass Dich dabei von historischen Prominenten inspirieren!
data enrichment
game
mobile app
remix
storytelling
web app
Baden-Württemberg 2022

Time Flies

Mit „Time Flies“ fliegt Ihr zu Fundstellen der frühesten Menschheitsgeschichte und erforscht spielerisch Inhalte der archäologischen Datenbank ROAD.
application
game
maps
visualization
web app
Baden-Württemberg 2022

Altlas

Geographische Erkundungstour, bei der sich mithilfe der Anwendung Pläne aus alten Atlanten interaktiv mit neuen Karten vergleichen lassen
desktop app
VR
Ost 2018

UHF-converter

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

HAMMERLORD

Rette die magische Welt der Zwerge! Mithilfe von Logik, Cleverness und HÄMMER!
application
game
script
storytelling
visualization
Baden-Württemberg 2022
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

Spaß mit Wappen

Verschiedene Visualisierungen und Spiele (z.B. Quiz) zu den Wappen anbieten in einer Webapplikation
application
game
maps
tool
visualization
web app
website
Schleswig-Holstein 2021

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