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 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
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
Bestes Spiel

Numisma

Dieses Rätselspiel bietet die Möglichkeit, interaktiv verschiedene Datensätze zu erleben. Mit Spielspaß kombiniert, erlebt jede*r ein Stück Geschichte
application
game
storytelling
website
Schleswig-Holstein 2021
Out of competition

Die virtuelle Mittagsfrau

Multilinguales Geschichtenportal spinnt und übersetzt Geschichten und macht damit sorbische Kulturgeschichte lebendig
remix
web app
website
Ost 2018

Patents in Motion

Patentzeichnungen von Maschinen und Mechanismen des 19. Jahrhunderts werden zum Leben erweckt
mobile app
remix
Berlin 2015
Everybody's darling

Herzog VR August

Wir erwecken die Herzog-August-Bibliothek zum virtuellen Leben. Das Bücherrad darf dort zwar nicht angefasst werden, aber wir wollen am Rad drehen!
application
desktop app
game
visualization
VR
Niedersachsen 2020
Most technical

FLECTURE

AI generierte Fashion am eigenen Spiegelbild erleben. Experience AI generated fashion in your own reflection.
application
AR
physical computing
Baden-Württemberg 2022

Spiele-Safari

Erkundung der heimischen und exotischen Tier- und Pflanzenwelt der frühen Neuzeit in Mini-Games
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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