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Making heritage more engaging
Using Web 2.0 to connect heritage and people
Janet E. Davis
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Brief background: my workIncludes:
• Web Manager, Parks & Gardens Data Services, 2006 – 2009
• Freelance work with NEMLAC including– Promoting NE museums, libraries and archives online resources
– Sharing digital skills
• Newcastle Collection pilot project – Local Studies, Newcastle Libraries, 2004
• Leader of Tyneside Life & Times project for Newcastle Libraries, one of the SoPNE (Sense of Place North East project consortium, including Tyne & Wear Museums, Gateshead Libraries and Northumberland Archives) 2002 – 2004
• English Heritage
More info at: http://web.me.com/jedavis/Janet_E_Davis/
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Project aims
• Encouraging volunteers to research & record
• Collating information from other sources
Creating
• database
• web site
• educational resources
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Specific project aims
• 6,000 records of sites in England & Wales
• 1,000 records of sites in Scotland & Northern Ireland
• References records
• Archives sources
• Associated Person records
• Associated Organisation records
• Digital images & digital image records
• 20 themed educational resources
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Who involved?
• Parks & Gardens Data Services– not-for-profit company set up by:
• IT contractor • hosting service
• Supported by
and
• Volunteers
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Using free web resources developing content 1
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Using free web resources developing content 2
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Who involved? Stakeholders
Advisory Panel
Experts include representatives from:
English Heritage
RCAMHW
Hampshire County Council
Consultative Group
Volunteers organisations - NADFAS, County Gardens Trusts, NCCPG
Universities
Culture 24
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Who is it for?Experts Non-experts
Site owners/managers Archaeologists Historians
Heritage professionals Planning professionals Design professionals
HE & FE students Life-long LearnersUK schoolchildren
General public Volunteers Tourists
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Accessibility issues - physical and technological
Front end of web site
Needed to allow for:
• people with disabilities, especially with visual impairments, including colour blindness;
• slow dial-up internet access
• older hardware and software
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Database interface
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Intellectual accessibility - navigation
Providing methods to access the database records that do not require:
• prior knowledge of historic parks & gardens;
• knowledge of UK geography or local authority areas;
• good spelling or high level of literacy.
Building a semantic bridge using navigation
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Find records
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Map-based Search
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Intellectual accessibility - images
Building a semantic bridge using description
• People ‘read’ pictures according to what they know.
• Need to describe what is where.
• What is obvious to one expert will not be obvious to another from a different discipline.
• Accessibility for visually-impaired.
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Intellectual accessibility - writing styleBuilding a semantic bridge using writing style
• Using plain English or providing explanations of specialist terms
• Abbreviations and acronyms written in full.
• ‘Friendly’ but objective style.
• Concise, short sentences.
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Controlled vocabulary
Example of early controlled vocabulary list for terms to describe the context or principal building for historic parks and gardens.
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The Thesaurus within the database
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Data entry form - Context
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Illustrated Glossary
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Illustrated Glossary - Front End
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Front end content editor
• Next stage - letting volunteers add their own articles from the front end.
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Twitter – janetedavis List Museums
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Twitter – janetedavis List For_tourists_in_UK
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historypin
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The #artsfunding Daily
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Conclusion
Using Web 2.0 enables:
Audience feedback
Audience participation
Building resources people use
Sustainable interest
and
Encourages proactive participation in heritage/culture.
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References and resources
Others
Pinterest - virtual themed pinboards, adding images from websites so that you can share them with others: http://pinterest.com historypin - Upload digitised historical photographs and connect them to a location on a map, tell your story – or explore other people’s http://www.historypin.com/
Online collaboration and project tools example: Huddle
Others
Pinterest - virtual themed pinboards, adding images from websites so that you can share them with others: http://pinterest.com historypin - Upload digitised historical photographs and connect them to a location on a map, tell your story – or explore other people’s http://www.historypin.com/
Online collaboration and project tools example: Huddle
Making heritage more engaging Janet E Davis 2011
Parks & Gardens UK http://parksandgardens.ac.uk/ - example of how Web 2.0 technologies can enable wider participation.Parks & Gardens UK http://parksandgardens.ac.uk/ - example of how Web 2.0 technologies can enable wider participation.
Some of my Twitter lists (remember that these can be pulled into blogs or websites):Museums and galleries: http://twitter.com/#/list/janetedavis/museums-and-galleriesHistory people and organisations: http://twitter.com/janetedavis/history-people-and-orgsCultural heritage: http://twitter.com/janetedavis/cultural-heritage-uk
Some of my Twitter lists (remember that these can be pulled into blogs or websites):Museums and galleries: http://twitter.com/#/list/janetedavis/museums-and-galleriesHistory people and organisations: http://twitter.com/janetedavis/history-people-and-orgsCultural heritage: http://twitter.com/janetedavis/cultural-heritage-uk
Examples of curating or news gathering online resources that you can customise:Paper.li - uses Twitter or Facebook feeds – explore what is already set up - I set up several early on relevant to culture http://paper.li/
#artsfunding Daily is an example of Paper.li http://paper.li/tag/artsfunding
Twitter Times http://tweetedtimes.com/
Examples of curating or news gathering online resources that you can customise:Paper.li - uses Twitter or Facebook feeds – explore what is already set up - I set up several early on relevant to culture http://paper.li/
#artsfunding Daily is an example of Paper.li http://paper.li/tag/artsfunding
Twitter Times http://tweetedtimes.com/