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History in your hands: The development of location-based applications for the
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Tom Pert
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
Comisiwn Brenhinol Henebion CymruRoyal Commission on the Ancient and Historical
Monuments of Wales
The national body of research and record for the historic environment of Wales
Connected Spaces
• How can we combine information and multi-media and make it available in formats readily usable by the public?
• Focus on the use of mobile devices.
Changing technologies
• Mobile platforms, functionality and performance are constantly developing
• These changes in technology have been mirrored by the development of mobile applications by the Royal Commission
E-Lwybr Rhuthun - Ruthin E-Trail
2005-06: The Ruthin e-trail
• Deliver heritage information in new and innovative way to a wider audience
• Introduce Welsh Baccalaureate students to the fundamentals of GIS, GPS and mobile technology
• Enable students to develop measurable key skills which will count towards their attainment of the Welsh Baccalaureate
• Develop our understanding of how to deliver Coflein information to mobile devices
Aims:
E-Lwybr Rhuthun - Ruthin E-Trail
Compact Flash GPS Receiver
HP IPAQ PDA
ESRI ArcPad Mobile GIS
AquaPac Waterproof bag
Basic Equipment
E-Lwybr Rhuthun - Ruthin E-Trail
Tap
Tap on any of the highlighted buildings to access information and images from the Denbighshire Record Office and RCAHMW’s COFLEIN web service.
Using the e-trail
E-Lwybr Rhuthun - Ruthin E-Trail
E-Lwybr Rhuthun - Ruthin E-Trail
E-Lwybr Rhuthun - Ruthin E-Trail
Students visiting the Record Office
E-Lwybr Rhuthun - Ruthin E-Trail
Education
E-Lwybr Rhuthun - Ruthin E-Trail
Students at Ysgol Brynhyfryd, Ruthin, creating their own E-Trails.
Welsh Baccalaureate
2007-08: Blaenavon town e-trail
Changing Hardware
Changing Software
The Blaenavon Town e-trail
Blaenavon World Heritage Centre
14 HP iPAQ Travel Companions
www.mscapers.com
Education – Coleg Gwent IT students
Education – Coleg Gwent IT students
Sensor Range Interaction mode
RFID 1cm Touch
2D barcodes 10cm Focus
Infrared 5m Point
RF pingers 50m Approach
Transition from outdoor to indoor space with use of spatial triggers other than GPS.
Future development
Casgliad y Bobl / The People's Collection represents an important One Wales commitment to develop an innovative approach to collect, interpret, distribute and discuss Wales' cultural heritage in an online environment. A world class bilingual online resource which extends an understanding of our culture and heritage both within Wales and beyond.
2009-10: Casgliad y Bobl / The People’s Collection
An online multimedia platform providing bilingual content created by Welsh museums, archives and libraries and user-generated content on Welsh cultural heritage.
Who is providing content?
Initial content will be provided by:
• National Library of Wales
• National Museum Wales
• Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
• Culturenet Cymru
• National Grid for Learning Cymru
• BBC Wales
• Herian
GIS functionality
All content will be tagged spatially, temporally and thematically, enabling it to be displayed on-line within a time-enabled mapping interface.
The GIS interface will allow the user to search in a number of ways:• Using a time-dependent display – moving a slider along a bar would result in
data and base-mapping being shown or hidden according to the period selected
• A geographical display allowing collections to be searched by spatial location• A thematic display of items tagged into thematic groups.• A free text search.
Delivery to mobile phones
• Hardware that virtually everyone has access to
• A platform with a variety of delivery options: audio, SMS, internet
• People’s Collection will develop a pan-Wales system for delivery of heritage information to mobile phones
Mobile delivery
Different levels of mobile interface will be developed to suit different levels of phone sophistication and network availability, thereby maximizing potential audience.
Source: Ofcom / GSM Association / Europa Technologies; Q1 2008 Note: Map shows the number of 2G operators with at least 75% area coverage; not directly comparable to that published in the 2007 report.
2G mobile phone network
3G mobile phone network
Source: Ofcom / GSM Association / Europa Technologies; Q1 2008 Note: Map shows the number of 3G operators with at least 75% area coverage; not directly comparable to that published in the 2007 report.
Mobile phone development
• Latest generation iPhone, G1, Blackberry Storm, HTC Magic
• Seamless use of 2G, 3G and Wi-Fi • Downloadable Applications• GPS• Open operating system: Android
User-generated contentContent uploaded by users will eventually form the majority of content available through the site. Users will be able to choose whether to make this material visible to all users, specific user groups or just add it to their private scrapbook.