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.

Klingende Mathemodelle in VR

Mathematische Modell nicht nur zum Anschauen sondern auch zum Anhören - klingende Mathemodelle in Virtual-Reality ebend.
Projekttyp
sonification
visualization
VR
web app

HAMMERLORD

Rette die magische Welt der Zwerge! Mithilfe von Logik, Cleverness und HÄMMER!
Projekttyp
application
game
script
storytelling
visualization

Craftspeople

Interaktive App, um Kindern auf spielerische Weise Handwerksberufe mithilfe von Lithographien nahezubringen

archiv criminalis

Gelangweilt von den heutigen Verbrechen? Dann schau doch lieber mal, was es im 19. Jahrhundert für spannende Verbrechen zu entdecken gibt.
Projekttyp
application
maps
storytelling
visualization
web app
website

GarGOyle

Helft dem kleinen Dämonen Samy ins Münster zu kommen und lernt dabei mehr über das Freiburger Münster, seine Wasserspeier und die Stadt Freiburg!
Projekttyp
game
mobile app
storytelling

Crawling Feminism

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

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.