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 technical

Kurbelkamera

Projektion alter Filme auf eine Leinwand und Interaktion mit diesen Streifen
physical computing
Berlin 2015

Spiele-Safari

Erkundung der heimischen und exotischen Tier- und Pflanzenwelt der frühen Neuzeit in Mini-Games
Süd 2019

BOMBUS

„Als Hummel arbeiten“ und die Wichtigkeit von Hummeln für unsere Ökosysteme verstehen.
game
Berlin 2017
Trinational award: Crossing borders & uniting data

BackToTheMap

Application uses React Native technology, implements interesting solutions of timeline and map display, including historical maps and data.
mobile app
Ost³ 2022

DeliveryDetector

Historische Posthornklänge weisen den Nutzer auf die Ankunft von DHL-Autos vor seiner Haustür hin
application
physical computing
tool
Rhein-Main 2018
Best design

EthnoBand

Mithilfe der Webapp lassen sich Musikinstrumente des Ethnologischen Museums selbst spielen, solo oder in der Gruppe
web app
Berlin 2014

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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