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Timisoara Culture Hackathon
On Saturday and Sunday, April 18-19, 2015, in Timișoara, at the "Eugen Todoran" Central University Library, the first event in Romania for the reuse of open cultural data took place, Timisoara Open Culture Hackathon, which challenged programmers and representatives of cultural institutions to jointly develop cultural web and mobile applications, as a preamble to the preparation of the Timisoara European Capital of Culture project.
For 14 hours, the participants grouped in multidisciplinary teams developed 4 projects, relevant at the local and national level, demonstrating that access to cultural works and the permission to reuse cultural content without restrictions create new opportunities to attract the public to cultural institutions.
Polytechnic University of Timisoara received First prize for the project Timisoara City Art – an application for the mobile phone that helps the people of Timisoara and tourists to discover the monuments in the public space. At a click away, the places where the monuments are located can be identified on the map, the distance to be traveled by the user, from the point where they are, the means of transport that allow you to reach the destination and, what is most impressive, the possibility of finding out with the help of the augmented reality technique when the work was built, by whom, by simply scanning a code on the monument.
The authors of this application are part of Multimedia Center of the Politehnica University of Timișoara: Silviu Vert, Victor Holotescu, Aurel Chiper, Sorina Voina, Daniela Ibrescu, who worked closely with the Triade Foundation.
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