hearthighland and scrappbook – highland-based innovation in collaborative apps

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HeartHighland and scrAPPbook Having fun and innovating through two new collaborative app projects in the Highlands and Moray Verity Walker, Director, Interpretaction Projects Ltd

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HeartHighland and scrAPPbook

Having fun and innovating

through two new collaborative app projects in the Highlands and Moray

Verity Walker, Director, Interpretaction Projects Ltd

"O wad some Power

the gift tae gie us,

to see oursels as ithers see us!“

Robert Burns, To a Louse

My heart’s in the Highlands –Homecoming 2014

• Highland Museums Forum, NTS, Highland Highlife larger museums, archives & libraries, independent heritage attractions in the Highlands and Moray such as steam railways, RSPB, WTS

• Event grants of £250 triggered creativity• Training in social and digital media and collaborative

working• Touring exhibition, ‘Needed on a Journey’• Funded by MGS, HLF, Highland Council• New collaborative app

(designed by XDesign in Edinburgh)

We wanted an app which would

• Promote and interpret a geographical area to create clustered destinations without getting hung up on institutional boundaries

• Allow visitors to choose a destination by themed interest or location (HeartHighland Explore)

• Allow visitors to choose an event by its timing(HeartHighland Celebrate)

• Show what was inside museums etc (ie the chocolates, not the box!)

• Encourage visitors to feed back creatively using audio and photos (HeartHighland Share)

300+ downloads to Iphone/Ipad June –October -would have been 2,500 + if it had been in Android too!

50+ participant sites/organisations

300+ events

Shared creative photo/audio stream created – huge potential for more interactivity within collections etc.

BUT (why is there always a but…)

• This was only a pilot one-year Homecoming 2014 project –not a three year project (better) or core-funded (the future)

• No 2015 budget to redesign as an Android platform

• No planning for ‘what happens next’ for the app and website – so website out-of-date, although this should change soon.

So a waste of time? DEFINITELY NOT!

• Huge steps forward in changing mindsets on digital technologies and collaboration generally

• Friendships and professional links created

• Greater awareness of the need to core-fund digital technology projects

Competitive collaborative concepts developed by teams of strangers can secure University of Dundee

partnership fundingvisit www.designinaction.com and check out the

Chiasma programmes – great CPD!

ScrAPPbook enables any community (including museum visitors) to create a collaborative view of how they see your location/site/collection using pre-set challenges, often against the clock

Potential scrAPPbook communities

• museum & historic site (staff, visitors)

• rural communities

• schools

• conferences

• weddings

• High Streets

the list is endless… and completed ‘scrAPPbooks’ can be placed on the public scrAPPbook ‘shelf’

Find out more

www.hearthighland.org

www.facebook.com/hearthighland

www.scrAPPbook.net

www.facebook.com/scrAPPbookBadenoch

@hearthighland, @scrAPPbooking @walker_verity

[email protected] +44 [0] 77789 22407