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

Yabusame!!

Ein unterhaltsames serious VR-Game ganz im Stil der japanischen Querrollen. Museumsbesuchende können sich im Zielschießen mit dem Bogen testen!
game
storytelling
VR
Baden-Württemberg 2022

Altlas

Geographische Erkundungstour, bei der sich mithilfe der Anwendung Pläne aus alten Atlanten interaktiv mit neuen Karten vergleichen lassen
desktop app
VR
Ost 2018
Most useful, Everybody's darling

floradex

App ermöglicht intuitiven Nachbau von Pflanzen und somit ihrer Bestimmung für unterwegs
web app
Berlin 2015

Crawling Feminism

Crawling von Google-Bildern zu Suchbegriffen in verschiedenen Ländern, um deren Sicht auf Feminismus, Freiheit und Gleichberechtigung zu verdeutlichen
mobile app
web app
website
visualization
Westfalen-Ruhrgebiet 2019

Mnemosyne

Virtuelles “wahlloses” Greifen ins Bücherregal - und dabei Schätze finden
web app
Berlin 2014
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!
application
desktop app
game
visualization
VR
Niedersachsen 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
Funniest hack

Cyberbeetle

Beweglicher Roboterkäfer, der sich in seiner Insektenkastenbox Videos von Pflanzen und Tieren anschauen kann
remix
physical computing
Berlin 2014

Flugblättlefieber

Besucher:innen des Haus der Geschichte BW verteilen in einem Spiel historische Flugblätter auf dem Stuttgarter Marienplatz in den 1920ern.
game
maps
visualization
Baden-Württemberg 2022

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

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