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.

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Vervollständigung der Angaben zu “verbannten Büchern” und Verbesserung der Suchfunktion auf der dazugehörigen Website
Projekttyp
data enrichment
website
visualization

MadMemory

Online-Spiel, das dazu einlädt, sich genauer mit Wörtern aus dem Rheinischen Mitmachwörterbuch und dem Sächsischen Wörterbuch zu beschäftigen
Projekttyp
web app
game
Out of competition

Die virtuelle Mittagsfrau

Multilinguales Geschichtenportal spinnt und übersetzt Geschichten und macht damit sorbische Kulturgeschichte lebendig
Projekttyp
remix
web app
website

History Map

Eine verschiedenen Datensätzen basierende Map welche geografisch geordnete Informationen zu Datensätzen liefert
Projekttyp
application
data enrichment
maps
tool
visualization
web app
website

Stuttg'Art

"Stuttg'Art" macht Kunst im öffentlichen Raum erfahrbar. In Form einer Geocaching App schicken wir euch auf die Suche nach Kunstwerken in Stuttgart.
Projekttyp
application
game
mobile app
storytelling
Best design

The Comedy of HTTP 404

Point-and-Click-Adventure, bei dem man in die Rolle eines/einer Praktikant*in am Saarländischen Staatstheater schlüpft und Theater-Geister vertreibt.
Projekttyp
website
game

UHF-converter

VR-Game: Erstellen eines UHF-Converters zum Empfangen von Westfernsehen in der ehemaligen DDR
Projekttyp
application
game
storytelling
VR
Funniest hack

Appsolutly Old

Mit Appsolutly Old werden historische Daten zum Leben erweckt und an die gegenwärtigen Medien angepasst!
Projekttyp
application
mobile app
remix
visualization

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.