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.

All Projects

Atlas 1833

Application de cartes à ba base d'un atlas datant de 1833, qui montre la frontière entre la Prusse et la France au niveau de la Sarre.
website
Saar-Lor-Lux 2020
Funniest hack

webweb

Die Webmuster und ihre Entstehung werden interaktiv, spielerisch und räumlich erfahrbar gemacht.
AR
game
web app
Ost³ 2022

Craftspeople

Interaktive App, um Kindern auf spielerische Weise Handwerksberufe mithilfe von Lithographien nahezubringen
Süd 2019

Musikus

Interaktiver Museumsführer und Spielzeug zugleich
mobile app
game
Berlin 2015

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

Kunterbunt

Gestalte die Dionysos-Mosaike mit frischen Farben neu und ergänze fehlerhafte Stellen nach deinen Vorstellungen.
application
game
remix
tool
web app
Nieder.Rhein.Land 2021

RingRing

Auf spielerische Weise historische Telefonapparate audiovisuell erleben
desktop app
game
mobile app
Rhein-Main 2018

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
Bestes Spiel

Numisma

Dieses Rätselspiel bietet die Möglichkeit, interaktiv verschiedene Datensätze zu erleben. Mit Spielspaß kombiniert, erlebt jede*r ein Stück Geschichte
application
game
storytelling
website
Schleswig-Holstein 2021

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