This explains how to use "Fieldtrip GB" in the Orkney Community Digital Heritage project

1. Orkney
Community Digital
Heritage
A project with Centre for Nordic Studies,
Orkney Heritage Society and other
community groups

2. The points of the project
Record and share
names and
stories about
places in Orkney
Let older people
use digital
technology –
smart phones and
tablets

3. What are we interested in recording?
Stories of places Place names Stories of people
Any place, does not have to be
“significant”. Personal
memories and passed down
anecdotes, not just full stories
Especially “lesser” names
such as field names, and
names of smaller features
like rocks, burns, geos, ruins
The people who inhabit
these places, today and in
the past, who they were,
what they did, anecdotes

4. For example
This is the old Orphir school. I went to school here from
1980-86. It had a “big end”, a “peedie end” and a “middle
end”! I remember the playground just being a field, and
we had lots of fun finding insects in the grass. There were
only about 50 pupils.

5. How does it work?
• Edina Fieldtrip GB app for smart phones
• Places your spot on a map
• Asks you questions
• You can record written text or sound
• You can take photos there and then
• You can upload things, such as scans of
old photos
• All saved to a dropbox
• Centre for Nordic Studies move contents
of dropbox to a website

6. First, switch on the “tablet”
Put your finger
here
Hold it in for a
while
Using a “tablet”
borrowed from
Centre for Nordic
Studies

7. Unlock it
Put your finger
on the padlock
Drag it out of
view
This unlocks
the “tablet”

8. This screen comes up
Put your finger
on the screen
(somewhere in
the blue sky or
grass, not on an
icon)
Drag your finger
from right to left

9. Find the “app” called Fieldtrip Gb
Here it is!
Open it by
tapping your
finger on the
green icon

10. It warns you not to use it for navigation
Press the “OK”
button

11. Now you are in!
Press here:
Capture

12. Find “Orkney Digital Heritage”
Look under
“Custom Forms”
Find “Orkney
Digital Heritage”
Press it

13. Fill in while you are at the relevant
place
Name of the place or person, e.g.
“Old Orkney Arts Theatre”
(Not your own name)
Choose from the list: Place, person,
place-name, story, object
Press here to take a photo
Press here and then the red record
button to speak
Or you can write about it
The GPS knows where you are

14. To store your record
Go to the bottom
by dragging your
finger upwards
on the screen
Press “save”

15. To store your record
• Wait while it
says “Waiting
for GPS fix”
• Don’t worry if
you can’t see
the map now

16. To store your record
• It has
finished
thinking and
the GPS
knows
where you
are
• Press save

17. To share your record
• You can store as many records as
you want before you share
• Go to somewhere with an internet
connection and get online
• Go into the Fieldtrip programme
again
• Press “log in”

18. To share your record
cns@uhi.ac.uk
Orkney Press
here

19. To share your record
Press “Upload
records”

20. It has now been shared!
A tick means it has gone to the “drop-box” and is ready
to go on the big map

21. How to switch it off
Find this at the very bottom of your screen
If it’s all black, touch the black area to make it
come up
Put your finger on the rectangle

22. How to switch it off
Put your finger here
Drag it away
That’s it off and you
are back to the start
screen
Switch the whole
thing off by holding in
the little button on
the edge, which you
used to switch it on

23. If I have my own tablet or smart-phone, how
do I get the Fieldtrip Gb programme?
• Open an internet browser and go to this address:
• http://fieldtripgb.blogs.edina.ac.uk/download

24. If I have my own tablet or smart-phone, how
do I get the Fieldtrip Gb programme?
Press here if you have an
iPad or iPhone or other
Apple device
Press here if you have a Hudl,
Samsung, or other Android
device (not Apple)
You need to
know your
own password

25. If I have my own tablet or smart-phone, how
do I get the Fieldtrip Gb programme?
• Go to your “apps” and find
Fieldtrip GB
• Press “login”

26. If I have my own tablet of smart-phone, how do I get the Fieldtrip Gb programme?
cns@uhi.ac.uk
Orkney Press
here
Log in here

27. If I have my own tablet or smart-phone, how
do I get the Fieldtrip Gb programme?
Press
“download
forms”

28. If I have my own tablet or smart-phone, how
do I get the Fieldtrip Gb programme?
• Choose “Orkney Digital
Heritage”

29. Commonly asked questions
• Do I have to have a smart phone?
• You can use your own phone or tablet if you have one.
• The app is free to download
• Centre for Nordic Studies has some tablets for loan
• What if I can’t get a signal?
• No problem -- It works offline as well
• All you need is to go somewhere with an internet connection to
upload records now and then

30. Commonly asked questions
• What type of device do I need?
• These certainly work:
• Apple (iOS 4.3 and above)
• Apple iPhone 4
• Apple iPhone 5
• Apple iPad 2
• Apple iPad 3
• Android (Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 and above)
• Tesco Hudl 2
• iPad
Or borrow one from
Centre for Nordic
Studies -- free

31. What will the outcome be?
• A website
• Interactive map of Orkney
• Click and bring up locations, place
names, stories of folk and sites, audio
recordings, scanned old photos and
documents, etc.

32. Similar
project
• “ …thousands
of records
relating to the
genealogy,
history,
traditions,
culture and
archaeology of
the Western
Isles …”

35. For Orkney, it
will look
something like
this

36. • -It is still
possible to
capture and
store more data
after the end of
the project
period
Now – September:
- Capturing: Out and
about to “your” special
places
- Help a friend get
started
October – December:
- Centre for Nordic Studies
publishes data on the
project website
What is the
time frame
for the
project?

37. Let’s do it!