mobile access to island heritage

Dr John Holliday (chair, An Iodhlann)

Janet Bowler (archivist)

Mark Vale (director CIT & developer)

Alan Dix (interaction design, semweb & Tiree Tech Wave)

An IodhlannTiree Historical Centre

founded 1992housed in old ‘reading room’

staffed by volunteers and P/T archivist

12,000 catalogued itemsmaps, land records,photos, audio tapes, ...

An Iodhlann – online!

main websitecatalogue online

special sitetireeplacenames

cultural heritage problem

information at An Iodhlann noton the ground in the island

20,000 summer visitors to Tireeonly ~ 1000 pa enter An Iodhlann... and demographic ... mature ...

idea! ... mobile access

better availability for thosewho already visit An Iodhlann

offer information to people, where they are, on the ground

new availability for

those who don’tesp. younger!

attract fresh visitorsinto An Iodhlann

challenges ... density of visitors

Edinburgh Castle

Tiree crowds

=> no special installations no guides on the ground

challenges ... mobile signal!

cannot stream data => downloaded app => limited content

good news – no hills, no buildings => GPS good

so ...

HTML5 off-line app– platform independent

data-driven– for extensibility and external use

launched 16th March 2013

pains– HTML5 not what it says on the box– existing data not as clean as we thought

joys– change of practice in archiving – geocode all

=> change in existing web presence

– offline maps and wonky maps– customisation e.g., Tiree Wave Classic, Tiree Tech Wave

I hate

sometimes ...

plus … first season– 1889 downloads– 20% increase in An Iodhlann footfall– doubled website traffic– Tiree Memories Facebook group

more information

Frasan app:http://www.aniodhlann.org.uk/projects/frasan/

Tiree Tech Wavehttp://tireetechwave.org/