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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RingRing

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

47 Rōnin

Die Geschichte der 47 Rōnin auf japanischen Querrollen soll in einem Spiel zum Leben erweckt werden.
game
storytelling
web app
Baden-Württemberg 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
Best design

COVER.BOUTIQUE

App zum Erstellen von individuellen Handyhüllen - mit Bildern aus unterschiedlichen Kulturinstitutionen
Süd 2019
Everybody's darling, Best design

Research Generative Design

Das Projekt RESEARCH GENERATIVE DESIGN beschäftigt sich explorativ und spielerisch mit generativer Gestaltung, KI und deren Anwendung. WIP.
remix
visualization
website
Nieder.Rhein.Land 2021
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Mein Stadtarchiv

Neue Datendarstellungsformen senken die Einstiegshürde für Stadtgeschichte und so wird die Geschichte einer Stadt zur Geschichte ihrer Einwohner*innen
data enrichment
web app
website
tool
visualization
Westfalen-Ruhrgebiet 2019
Everybody's darling

Skelex

Ausstellungsstücke virtuell greifen, rotieren und auseinanderziehen.
VR
Berlin 2017

Plantala

Malen. Strahlen. Plantala! Diese wunderschöne Anti-Burn-Out-Anwendung verbindet historische Lehrtafeln mit digitaler Kreativität!
application
data enrichment
game
remix
visualization
web app
website
Niedersachsen 2020

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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