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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Everybody's darling

Radikale Gespräche

„Radikale Gespräche“ präsentiert eine historische Zeitspanne radikaler Veränderungen in einem spannenden und gesprächsbasierten Kartenspiel.
game
storytelling
Ost³ 2022

Musel

App, die Sammeln, Speichern und Hochladen von Kunstwerken in einem mobilen Hub ermöglicht und Kunstinhalte in den Reisebuchungsprozess einbindet
Süd 2019

Visiting Landmarks

Geolocation-Collection-Game, das den Besuch eines denkmalgeschützten Gebäudes registriert, mit Infos belohnt und der eigenen Sammlung “hinzufügt”
mobile app
website
game
Nord 2016

Majorelle Mystery

Online Escape-Game, das in der berühmten Jugendstil-Villa Majorelle in Nancy spielt – samt deren ehemaligen Besitzer*innen und Erbauer*innen.
mobile app
game
Saar-Lor-Lux 2020

Abstract Visioner

We wanted to use an AI to blend together existing arts, make it accessible and easy to use for everyone via web app.
web app
Ost³ 2022

Börsendaten

Visuelle Darstellung des Datenbestandes der Firmenakten des Börsenvereins der deutschen Buchhändler zu Leipzig
data enrichment
web app
Ost 2018
Most useful

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
Funniest hack

Appsolutly Old

Mit Appsolutly Old werden historische Daten zum Leben erweckt und an die gegenwärtigen Medien angepasst!
application
mobile app
remix
visualization
Niedersachsen 2020

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

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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