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.

All Projects

Battlesim

Historische Schlachten simulieren, visualisieren und realitätsnah miterleben
desktop app
game
Rhein-Main 2018

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
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

Kupferguerillas

Mit Spielen und Nutzung von Augmented Reality werden historische Kupferstiche für ein neues Publikum erschlossen
AR
game
mobile app
Nord 2016

Kaiserpanorama VR+

Interaktive EInblicke in die Geschichte mithilfe einer VR-Brille und den Funktionen eines historischen Kaiserpanoramas
Süd 2019

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
Most technical, Most innovative

ANTLITZ.NINJA

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

History Map

Eine verschiedenen Datensätzen basierende Map welche geografisch geordnete Informationen zu Datensätzen liefert
application
data enrichment
maps
tool
visualization
web app
website
Baden-Württemberg 2022

Mylius Spuren

Mylius‘ historische Stadtansichten Frankfurts werden mit Geschichten und heutigen Ansichten der Stadt verbunden
website
Rhein-Main 2018

ChronoAtlas

Web-Portal, das exploratives Stöbern unterstützt und interaktiven Zugang zu historischen Landkarten vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert ermöglicht
maps
remix
tool
visualization
web app
website
Ost 2018
Out of competition

Die virtuelle Mittagsfrau

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

All Datasets