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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Best design

The Comedy of HTTP 404

Point-and-Click-Adventure, bei dem man in die Rolle eines/einer Praktikant*in am Saarländischen Staatstheater schlüpft und Theater-Geister vertreibt.
website
game
Saar-Lor-Lux 2020

imperii-vis

Website mit intuitiver Benutzeroberfläche ermöglicht erleichterte Datenabfrage von Regesten des Mittelalters
website
Berlin 2015
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Mein Stadtarchiv

Neue Datendarstellungsformen senken die Einstiegshürde für Stadtgeschichte und so wird die Geschichte einer Stadt zur Geschichte ihrer Einwohner*innen
data enrichment
web app
website
tool
visualization
Westfalen-Ruhrgebiet 2019

Paracosm - mindful maps

Paracosm is an interactive game which uses historical maps and medieval engravings to put you in the state of relaxation and mindfulness.
game
mobile app
web app
Ost³ 2022
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Mein Stadtarchiv

Neue Datendarstellungsformen senken die Einstiegshürde für Stadtgeschichte und so wird die Geschichte einer Stadt zur Geschichte ihrer Einwohner*innen
data enrichment
web app
website
tool
visualization
Westfalen-Ruhrgebiet 2019

#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

Damals

Interaktives Quiz, bei dem die Positionen historischer Bauten in Leipzig geraten oder Fragen zu den Gebäuden beantwortet werden müssen
web app
game
Ost 2018

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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