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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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"
data enrichment
visualization
Saar-Lor-Lux 2020

RingRing

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

UHF-converter

VR-Game: Erstellen eines UHF-Converters zum Empfangen von Westfernsehen in der ehemaligen DDR
application
game
storytelling
VR
Ost³ 2022
Unusual use of data

Klang der Sterne

Mithilfe der Sonification lassen sich nicht visuell erfassbare Bewegungen von Sternen wahrnehmen
physical computing
sonification
Nord 2016

Klingende Mathemodelle in VR

Mathematische Modell nicht nur zum Anschauen sondern auch zum Anhören - klingende Mathemodelle in Virtual-Reality ebend.
sonification
visualization
VR
web app
Ost³ 2022
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!
application
desktop app
game
visualization
VR
Niedersachsen 2020

Damals

Interaktives Quiz, bei dem die Positionen historischer Bauten in Leipzig geraten oder Fragen zu den Gebäuden beantwortet werden müssen
web app
game
Ost 2018
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

Birdory

Spielerische Zuordnung verschiedener Vogelstimmen
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.

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