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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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

Free Bugs

Käfer digital organisch Krabbeln lassen, untersuchen und vergleichen.
web app
Berlin 2017

3D-Scans

Erstellung von 3D-Scans einzelner (Porzellan-)Objekte aus dem Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig und dem Museum Schloss Fürstenberg.
visualization
Niedersachsen 2020

Paracosm - mindful maps

Paracosm is an interactive game which uses historical maps and medieval engravings to put you in the state of relaxation and mindfulness.
game
mobile app
web app
Ost³ 2022

Time Flies

Mit „Time Flies“ fliegt Ihr zu Fundstellen der frühesten Menschheitsgeschichte und erforscht spielerisch Inhalte der archäologischen Datenbank ROAD.
application
game
maps
visualization
web app
Baden-Württemberg 2022
Most technical, Most innovative

ANTLITZ.NINJA

Gesichtspartien aus Werken der Kunstgeschichte kreativ verschmelzen lassen
web app
game
Rhein-Main 2018

Paracosm - mindful maps

Paracosm is an interactive game which uses historical maps and medieval engravings to put you in the state of relaxation and mindfulness.
game
mobile app
web app
Ost³ 2022

Abstract Visioner

We wanted to use an AI to blend together existing arts, make it accessible and easy to use for everyone via web app.
web app
Ost³ 2022
Everybody's darling

Herzog VR August

Wir erwecken die Herzog-August-Bibliothek zum virtuellen Leben. Das Bücherrad darf dort zwar nicht angefasst werden, aber wir wollen am Rad drehen!
application
desktop app
game
visualization
VR
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.

All Datasets