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
Funniest hack

Cyberbeetle

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

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

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
Everybody's darling

Artific

Empfiehlt Kunstwerke nach persönlichem Geschmack und integriert Kunst in unseren Alltag
AR
web app
Rhein-Main 2018
Funniest hack, Everybody's darling

162 Ways to Die

Interaktive Installation, die den Zugang zu den “Jesuitentafeln” des Stadtmuseums Landsberg erleichtert
Süd 2019

DeliveryDetector

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

Language & Places

In einer Webapp werden historische Werke aus Museen unterschiedlicher Länder zueinander in Bezug gesetzt
web app
Nord 2016

Patents in Motion

Patentzeichnungen von Maschinen und Mechanismen des 19. Jahrhunderts werden zum Leben erweckt
mobile app
remix
Berlin 2015

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