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.

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Vervollständigung der Angaben zu “verbannten Büchern” und Verbesserung der Suchfunktion auf der dazugehörigen Website
Projekttyp
data enrichment
website
visualization
Most technical

#Tagmotion, Tags im Museum

Erstellung von Anwendungen, die Menschen zur emotionalen Auseinandersetzung mit Tagebucheinträgen auffordern.
Projekttyp
application
data enrichment
desktop app
web app
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!
Projekttyp
application
desktop app
game
visualization
VR

EthnoTier

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

GastroGrantler

In der Rolle einer historischen Persönlichkeit entdeckt man in der virtuellen Stammtisch-App alltägliche und skurrile Gerichte vergangener Zeiten

Kleid-er-leben

Als Besucher des Historischen Museums Frankfurt historische Kleider per Funktionsanzug am eigenen Körper erfahren
Projekttyp
VR
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
Best design

EthnoBand

Mithilfe der Webapp lassen sich Musikinstrumente des Ethnologischen Museums selbst spielen, solo oder in der Gruppe
Projekttyp
web app
Out of competition

Die virtuelle Mittagsfrau

Multilinguales Geschichtenportal spinnt und übersetzt Geschichten und macht damit sorbische Kulturgeschichte lebendig
Projekttyp
remix
web app
website
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!
Projekttyp
application
desktop app
game
visualization
VR

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.
Projekttyp
game
mobile app
web 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.