exploring heritage in a digital wales
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Background and content
• The World’s innovators in the international heritage sector have their attention focused on the digital heritage approaches being undertaken in Wales.
• These new developments offer exciting new opportunities for learning about history and cultural heritage in a Digital Wales and as new resources for international digital tourism.
• Explore reasons why & examples of practice.
• Signpost new resources, approaches and events.
• Hands On.
Approach and focus at Newport
• The University of Wales, Newport’s focus in digital heritage is on creative approaches for heritage engagement, learning and participation online, on mobiles phones and in virtual worlds.
• How can such approaches extend and enhance our experiences of heritage and enable new forms of interpretation?
• What forms of digital heritage approaches can help enable an increased digital participation of excluded groups?
• How can digital heritage serve as a new driver in the digital economy? – convergence for digital learning and digital tourism.
New approaches in Wales
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/rhagor/
New approaches in Wales
http://www.cadw-feedback.org.uk/index_en.html
New approaches in Wales
An online multimedia platform providing bilingual content created by Welsh museums, archives and libraries and user-generated content on Welsh cultural heritage.
Launch ‐August 2010
http://beta.peoplescollection.co.uk/
New approaches in Wales
http://beta.peoplescollection.co.uk/
People’s Collection WalesInnovation Pilots
Hosted within the “Labs“ section of the site:
• Virtual artefacts
• Virtual Buildings & Landscapes
• Interactive pictures
• Virtual galleries
• 4D GIS hub
• Labs will provide a home for the most technologically innovative cultural heritage material produced in Wales, and act as a forum for those interested in advancing techniques for presenting Wales’ heritage online.
http://beta.peoplescollection.co.uk/
New media approach in 2008
http://idl.newport.ac.uk/digitalheritage/index.htm
New media approach in 2009
http://idl.newport.ac.uk/kingarthur/index.htm
Roman Caerleon Trail – mobile 2010
Futurelab Vision magazine – feature July 2010
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/publications-reports-articles/vision-magazine
Roman Caerleon trail – Online 2010
http://idl.newport.ac.uk/romancaerleontrail/
Roman Caerleon trail - Web 3D 2010
http://idl.newport.ac.uk/romancaerleontrail/
Roman Caerleon trail - Web 3D 2010
http://idl.newport.ac.uk/romancaerleontrail/
Digital Heritage Zone in Second Life 2010
http://www3.newport.ac.uk/news/displayStory.aspx?story_id=462
Digital Heritage Zone in Second Life 2010
New developments & events 2010 & beyond
• AHRC ‘Linking the Chain – Digital Heritage in Wales Network’ led by the University of Glamorgan in collaboration with BT Wales, with contribution from the University of Wales, Newport and a cross sector community of interest.
• Launch of the People’s Collection Wales
• Launch of the Genealogy Centre in Ebbw Vale.
Sources of further information
• Kalay, Y.E., Kvan, T. & Afflect, J. (2008) New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage Routlege: Oxon
• Gill, A. (2009) Digitizing the Past: Charting New Courses in the Modelling of Virtual Landscapes, Visual Resources, Vol 25 No.4 p. 313 – 332
• Chilcott, M.; Howell, R, & Pert, T. (2010) Digital Heritage in Action SWCHIR Lecture webcasts & resource areahttp://idl.newport.ac.uk/http://idl.newport.ac.uk/events/digitalheritageinaction/index.htm
• Pert, T. (2008) History In Your Hands: Using Mobile Devices in Heritage Interpretation, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales ISBN 978-1-871184-30-3
• The Future is Now: Libraries and Museums in Virtual Worlds 2010 http://www.flickr.com/groups/1401109@N22/ (Accessed 27/04/10)
