Conference abstract
2010-11-25
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History on the go: a short project presentation of the Swedish National Heritage Board work with mobile applications and open data
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Swedish National Heritage Board is the agency responsible for heritage and historic environment issues in Sweden. A core task is to promote and facilitate the public and institutions to connect with the cultural heritage.
One way is to make cultural heritage data way more accessible and usable than today. This was the starting point for the Board´s development of Swedish Open Cultural Heritage (SOCH) and applications using SOCH as a source for data.
The SOCH web service aggregates cultural heritage data from a wide range of institutions and provides an API which opens up for making SOCH data accessible not only for contributors but also for third party users. SOCH is structurally very similar to Europeana and functions as aggregator for Europeana for museums.
SOCH holds some 3.5 million objects consisting of georeferenced immobile cultural heritage, museum objects and some 350 000 items from the national library catalogue. The number of providers are c. 30, representing a wide range of national, regional and local institutions and associations.
The fast growing use of mobile units opens up for developing easy-to-use applications for accessing data on demand. This inspired the Board to build a android application using the functions of the smartphones combined with the content of SOCH. The main cause was to create an example to show what SOCH content can be used for and the advantages of an API, freeing not only the data but making it available anywhere at any time.
Never before have Swedish cultural history been so mobile. With an android phone in your pocket, you can bring the cultural heritage out of the archives and in to the real world. With modern positioning technology the interaction between the user and the data is gives the experience a whole new dimension.
One way is to make cultural heritage data way more accessible and usable than today. This was the starting point for the Board´s development of Swedish Open Cultural Heritage (SOCH) and applications using SOCH as a source for data.
The SOCH web service aggregates cultural heritage data from a wide range of institutions and provides an API which opens up for making SOCH data accessible not only for contributors but also for third party users. SOCH is structurally very similar to Europeana and functions as aggregator for Europeana for museums.
SOCH holds some 3.5 million objects consisting of georeferenced immobile cultural heritage, museum objects and some 350 000 items from the national library catalogue. The number of providers are c. 30, representing a wide range of national, regional and local institutions and associations.
The fast growing use of mobile units opens up for developing easy-to-use applications for accessing data on demand. This inspired the Board to build a android application using the functions of the smartphones combined with the content of SOCH. The main cause was to create an example to show what SOCH content can be used for and the advantages of an API, freeing not only the data but making it available anywhere at any time.
Never before have Swedish cultural history been so mobile. With an android phone in your pocket, you can bring the cultural heritage out of the archives and in to the real world. With modern positioning technology the interaction between the user and the data is gives the experience a whole new dimension.
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Event place
Copenhagen
Conference name
NODEM 2010 Denmark
Publisher
NODEM
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NODEM 2010 Conference
open data
mobile application
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