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.

All Projects
Funniest hack

Cyberbeetle

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

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

EthnoTier

App, mit der Kinder ein Orchester aus einheimischen Tieren formieren können
mobile app
Berlin 2014
Publikumspreis

Troia erleben

Unser Projekt hat zum Ziel, Troia erlebbar zu machen. Es richtet sich an Museumsbesucher und Troia-Interessierte.
application
desktop app
game
mobile app
storytelling
visualization
web app
website
Baden-Württemberg 2022

#hammerpairs

Wir adaptieren eine neue Spieloberfläche des CollectivePairsSpieles für 876 unterschiedlichste Hämmer!
game
remix
Ost³ 2022
Most curious approach

ScrapHumor

ScrapHumor is a card game which merges two datasets seamlessly and it is funny! SrcapHumor is targeted to the youth.
game
remix
web app
Baden-Württemberg 2022

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

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