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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Kulturchronologie

Software zur anschaulichen Aufbereitung umfangreicher Chronologien und Historien von Ausstellungsobjekten
tool
Berlin 2014

VisualizingDaVinci

Dieser Knowledge Graph visualisiert den Impact, den Coding da Vinci bisher schon hatte und beantwortet viele Fragestellungen zum Projekt.
data enrichment
tool
visualization
Westfalen-Ruhrgebiet 2019
Funniest hack

Äpfel und Birnen

Aufgaben lösen und dabei Informationen über die physischen, geschichtlichen und optischen Eigenschaften der Obstsorten erhalten
web app
game
Ost 2018
Everybody's darling

Radikale Gespräche

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

FLECTURE

AI generierte Fashion am eigenen Spiegelbild erleben. Experience AI generated fashion in your own reflection.
application
AR
physical computing
Baden-Württemberg 2022
Funniest hack

Cyberbeetle

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

Äpfel und Birnen

Aufgaben lösen und dabei Informationen über die physischen, geschichtlichen und optischen Eigenschaften der Obstsorten erhalten
web app
game
Ost 2018

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