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Casgliad y Werin Cymru – People's Collection Wales: Combining Museum, Library, Archive, Broadcaster and User-Generated Content to Create "Wales in a Website"

Tom Pert — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:08:45 +0000

MW2011

Tom Pert, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales; Dafydd James, National Museum Wales, United Kingdom

Abstract

Casgliad y Werin Cymru – The People's Collection Wales – is more than just a website: it is a collaborative and federated programme developed by national institutions to tell the story of a nation from the perspective of its people. In this paper, we will explain the development of this open-source system which integrates material from organisations with very different business models and data structures, and blends it through its API into a set of geo-aware digital cultural heritage resources that make sense to the end-user.

Keywords: Wales,collaborative, open-source, cultural heritage resource

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Casgliad y Werin Cymru - People’s Collection Wales: combining museum, library, archive, broadcaster and user-generated content to create “Wales in a website”.

PhilaPlace to AnyPlace: Building a Reusable Community Platform for Mapping and Sharing History

mefisher — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:49:18 +0000

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Matthew Fisher and Stacey Mann, Night Kitchen Interactive; Kim Sajet, Historical Society of Pennsylvania; and Minda Borun, Museum Solutions, USA

Abstract

Recent advances in open-source technologies, advances in GIS mapping, and increased access to archival and community-curated content hold great potential for situating and visualizing the history of place in innovative ways. The 2010 launch of PhilaPlace, a collaborative and interactive community-oriented Web site, integrated two such open source solutions: Google Maps and Collective Access collections management system. Connecting stories to places across time throughout Philadelphia neighborhoods, PhilaPlace supports a rich feature set that facilitates an interpretive mosaic of historical records as well as stories, photos, and video shared by ordinary people of all backgrounds to create an enduring record of collective heritage. Herein we explore how the open-source solutions and institutional partnerships for PhilaPlace might inform an AnyPlace approach to mapping and interpreting place-based historical narratives for communities and historical sites, with an eye towards issues of sustainability, institutional capacity, and the changing pace of technological innovation.

Keywords: place-based storytelling, GIS mapping, collective memory, crowdsourcing, open-source, iterative design

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PhilaPlace to AnyPlace: Building a Reusable Community Platform for Mapping and Sharing History

mefisher — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:01:13 +0000

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Published Paper:

PhilaPlace to AnyPlace: Building a Reusable Community Platform for Mapping and Sharing History

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place-based storytelling

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GIS mapping

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collective memory

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community curation

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open-source

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iterative design

Abstract:

Just as personal and collective memories imbue artifacts with significance, so it is with place. Launched in January 2010, PhilaPlace is a collaborative and interactive community-oriented Web site that connects stories to places across time throughout Philadelphia’s neighborhoods, creating an enduring record of collective heritage. Through the integration of two open source solutions—Google Maps and Collective Access collections management system – PhilaPlace supports a rich feature set that facilitates an interpretive mosaic of historical records as well as stories, photos, and video shared by ordinary people of all backgrounds.

This paper focuses on the potential of current open-source technologies, advances in GIS mapping, and increased access to archival and community-curated content to situate and visualize the history of a place in innovative ways. The PhilaPlace platform affords a rich opportunity for closer inspection and evaluation as a potentially viable model and reproducible platform for broader application within the museum and historical center world (AnyPlace).

Our evaluation focuses on an iterative design review of not only the technological design solution but also the project methodology. How might the open-source solutions and institutional partnerships for PhilaPlace inform an AnyPlace approach to mapping and interpreting place-based historical narrative for neighborhoods in other towns and cities? Do evaluation results support the use of this methodology and platform as a reusable model, and what value does such a platform bring to the audiences who engage with it? Also included in our discussion are the lessons learned in developing PhilaPlace, in particular issues of sustainability, institutional capacity, and the changing pace of technological innovation.

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Paper - in formal session

Mobile and Geolocation Issues

Site:

http://www.philaplace.org

Authors:

Matthew Fisher

Kim Sajet

Minda Borun

Stacey Mann

Casgliad y Werin Cymru - People’s Collection Wales: combining museum, library, archive, broadcaster and user-generated content to create “Wales in a website”.

Tom Pert — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:10:56 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Casgliad y Werin Cymru – People's Collection Wales: Combining Museum, Library, Archive, Broadcaster and User-Generated Content to Create "Wales in a Website"

Keywords:

user-generated

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open-source

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API

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geo-spatial

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apps

Abstract:

Casgliad y Werin Cymru – The People’s Collection Wales is more than just a website, it is a collaborative and federated programme developed by national institutions to tell the story of a nation from the perspective of its people. Drawing upon the memories, photographs, video, audio and 3D resources of national, regional and local archives, as well as user-generated content from groups and individuals, the website is creating a resource that places heritage media in its temporal and spatial context, and encourages all users not just to view but to contribute and re-use this media in innovative ways.

In the proposed paper, staff from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, the National Museum Wales, the National Library of Wales, and the People’s Collection Wales’ Programme Manager will explain the development of this open-source system which integrates material from organisations with very different business models and data structures, and blends it through its API into a set of geo-aware digital cultural heritage resources that make sense to the end-user.

The speakers will explain the federated management model under which the programme operates, a model that draws upon the strengths of all partners to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Speakers will make clear the moderation system that has been implemented to ensure that all material uploaded to the site is legal and can be re-used by others for educational and non-commercial purposes.

The People’s Collection Wales has innovation at its core – the site already operates on multiple platforms, with novel tools and apps developed to assist users to create new, and re-use existing resources; the development and application of these will be explored.

The StoryBuilder tool allows users to bring together image, audio and video items from the site and repackage them, through an intuitive online movie-maker style tool, into brand new video sequences with their own metadata and spatio-temporal context.
Using the TrailBuilder tool, users can create geographical trails with related media located along a route. Each trail becomes an item in the People’s Collection, to be viewed online, printed or delivered to smartphones via the free Trails Cymru app.
The Trails Cymru app itself not only enables the user to access and view trails from the People’s Collection Wales system, it is also a tool for creating trails in the field. Using the app it is possible to record a route, capture geo-located audio, video and images along this route and upload the finished trail to the People’s Collection Wales website direct from the smartphone.

The People’s Collection Labs provides a showcase area for the most innovative developments in digital heritage presentation in Wales, and acts as a portal for developers to communicate their ideas on webGIS, augmented-reality, laser scanning, visualisation, and all that’s new in online presentation of heritage media. The latest developments arising from the People’s Collection Wales’ ongoing innovation programme will be explained.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

User-Generated Community

Site:

http://www.peoplescollectionwales.com

Authors:

Tom Pert

Dafydd James

Architecting the Elephant: Software Architecture and User Interface Design for Pachyderm 2.0

jtrant — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:57:39 +0000

Archer, J., Hapgood T., LaMar M., Norman D. 'A., & Wang T. (2005). Architecting the Elephant: Software Architecture and User Interface Design for Pachyderm 2.0. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2005: Proceedings.

Taking Teaching by the Tusks: Introducing Pachyderm 2.0

jtrant — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:57:39 +0000

Samis, P., & Johnson L. (2005). Taking Teaching by the Tusks: Introducing Pachyderm 2.0. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2005: Proceedings.