Re: digital heritage stories:
As part of an arts project last year, the local town was recreated in
minecraft and I'm about to do more work with it within a heritage
context; also using an app to game around the town. There's also a
walking trail that uses an app to talk about the buildings on the trail.
Might this be of interest?
Lorena
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Wisbech General Cemetery Preservation
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digital:heritage:creative
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> 1. Can you help the Heritage Fund to find digital heritage stories that would
> inspire others?
> 2. Content strategies and ticketing (2)
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> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:38:42 -0000
> From: George Bunting <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Can you help the Heritage Fund to find digital heritage stories that would inspire others?
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> Dear Tom,
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> This may be a bit out of scope but no harm in posting!
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> We are a small voluntary society of school alumni and have developed an app to crowdsource names to faces <https://www.whozatface.com/> in old photographs. Unlike social media;
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> * the images are posted on a closed site so access is controlled. Contributors are provided with a logon.
> * it can detect (NOT recognise!) a very large number of faces in an image (e.g. our school photos with 700+ faces).
> * once names are suggested and moderated the image and metadata can be stored locally.
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> We see this as an engagement tool as much as an archive resource.
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> We have managed to develop the idea, find a commercial sponsor to build it and still retain an active shared ownership.
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> Best,
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> George
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> George Bunting
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> Chairman, The Wellensian Association
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> From: Museums Computer Group <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Tom Steinberg
> Sent: 10 January 2020 11:31
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> Subject: Can you help the Heritage Fund to find digital heritage stories that would inspire others?
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> Dear MCGers,
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> Hello there! I’m a long time lurker, but it’s time to say hello. I’m the Digital Lead at the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and it has been my job for the last year or so to try to help this key UK funder to adapt to life in the digital age. There’s quite a bit to do, as you can get a flavour of from our service design blog <https://medium.com/doing-service-design-at-the-national-lottery/bumper-edition-10-december-7-january-digital-service-design-weeknotes-d02af241b02c> here.
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> In February we’ll be going public with a new digital skills campaign. The purpose of the campaign is to encourage people in heritage organisations to grow their own digital skills and confidence. We’re especially keen to motivate the kind of people who are not so digitally confident that they’re already signed up to this list!
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> As part of this we’re keen to publicly celebrate, share and examine uses of digital that have helped heritage projects and organisations to succeed. I’m writing to the list today because I was hoping some of you might be willing to share some of your favourite examples. You can nominate yourself, too, if you’re proud of a project...
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> I’m especially interested in really thoughtful, useful uses of digital that come from organisations without mega-budgets, and that involve technologies other than social media. It’s not that I’m against such projects, it’s just that they’re relatively easy to find.
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> I’m really seeking stories about organisations that have done any of these things:
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> - Used data to make marketing genuinely more effective.
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> - Built physical digital installations that are so great they affect how people talk and think about a place or institution.
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> - Used digitisation in a way that's created really substantial value for people.
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> - Used SEO or Tripadvisor/Google maps in ways that especially effective or inventive.
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> - Had interesting interactions with the Wikipedia universe, and other open data projects.
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> - Used tech to manage or coordinate volunteers or staff in some really improved way.
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> - Used visitors phones, on site, to do really useful things.
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> *
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> Thanks in advance for sharing!
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> All the best,
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> Tom
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> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:12:59 +0000
> From: Stuart Leech <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Content strategies and ticketing
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> Hi Fay,
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> I've attempted to use Shopify for ticketing on a couple of occasions and found it quite difficult to get what's needed out of it. Might be lack of nailed down specification from the organisation I was working for though.
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> There's also some fundamentals Shopify won't do but apps that workaround it's limitations but then aren't necessarily robust enough for running a box office.
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> Happy to have a chat about this as a solution one way or the other using Shopify would be amazing and I'm sure if anyone can do it Bristol Museums can!
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> Thanks,
> Stuart
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> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:16:01 +0000
> From: Jim Richardson - MuseumNext <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Content strategies and ticketing
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> Shopify seems like an expensive route to go down.
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> We’re currently using TicketTailor - https://www.tickettailor.com/pricing/ <https://www.tickettailor.com/pricing/> with Stripe. It’s the lowest cost ticketing solution I’ve found.
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>> On 13 Jan 2020, at 16:12, Stuart Leech <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hi Fay,
>>
>> I've attempted to use Shopify for ticketing on a couple of occasions and found it quite difficult to get what's needed out of it. Might be lack of nailed down specification from the organisation I was working for though.
>>
>> There's also some fundamentals Shopify won't do but apps that workaround it's limitations but then aren't necessarily robust enough for running a box office.
>>
>> Happy to have a chat about this as a solution one way or the other using Shopify would be amazing and I'm sure if anyone can do it Bristol Museums can!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stuart
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