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.

Talhoffer Quiz

Quiz zu den Abbildungen im “Fechtbuch” des Hans Talhoffers aus dem 15. Jahrhundert
Projekttyp
web app
game

#hammerpairs

Wir adaptieren eine neue Spieloberfläche des CollectivePairsSpieles für 876 unterschiedlichste Hämmer!
Projekttyp
game
remix

Histblogger – Kopergravure

Ein interaktives Erfassungstool für teilnehmergenerierte Inhalte mit angeschlossenem langfristigen Blogprojekt für digitalisierte Kunstobjekte
Projekttyp
website
tool

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
Everybody's darling

Herzog VR August

We're bringing the Herzog August Library alive in Virtual Reality. You're not allowed to touch the real book wheel there, but we want to spin it!
Projekttyp
application
desktop app
game
visualization
VR

ChronoAtlas

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

HAMMERLORD

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

ANTLITZ.NINJA

Gesichtspartien aus Werken der Kunstgeschichte kreativ verschmelzen lassen
Projekttyp
web app
game

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

Kunterbunt

Gestalte die Dionysos-Mosaike mit frischen Farben neu und ergänze fehlerhafte Stellen nach deinen Vorstellungen.
Projekttyp
application
game
remix
tool
web app
Everybody's darling

Herzog VR August

We're bringing the Herzog August Library alive in Virtual Reality. You're not allowed to touch the real book wheel there, but we want to spin it!
Projekttyp
application
desktop app
game
visualization
VR

American Guild - Network Data

Visualisation de données à la base d'échanges postales entre des intellectuels allemands éxilés et la "American Guild for German Cultural Freedom"
Projekttyp
data enrichment
visualization

Soundwall-App

App spielt Musikinstrumente und Videos, die ihre Spielweise dokumentieren, ab
Projekttyp
AR
mobile app

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.