Introducing QRpedia at Derby Museum

Introducing Qrpedia.org Bamkin and Eden

Who Am I?
Terence Eden
Mobile Internet Consultant with 8 years experience in Mobile Web
Questions? Please interrupt me!
Shy? Tweet me - @edent
Bored? Read my blog http://shkspr.mobi/blog/

And Who Is He?
Roger Bamkin aka @Victuallers
Wikipedian admin
GLAM Ambassador - Working for a year with the Derby Museum and British Museum to make the best use of Wikipedia.

What's a Barcode?

What Can A Barcode Do?
Machine Readable
Hold a single number
Client has to query a database to find out what the number means
More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode

What Is A QR Code?
Free and Open Standard
Can hold URLs
Quick and easy to scan
Works on all cameraphones not just “smartphones”
Free apps for all platforms
http://GetReader.com

Why Should Museums Use QR Codes? Let me tell you a story....

This Is The British Museum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_museum_entrance.jpg

Learned Men Examine The Rossetta Stone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosetta_Stone_International_Congress_of_Orientalists_ILN_1874.jpg

The Rossetta Stone Today

Not So Learned Men* *And women!

Not Much To Learn
Limited Information
Mono-Lingual
Unchanging
Let's Make it...
Learned
Multi -Lingual
Evolving

What if there were a seamless and low-cost way to harness the synergies between the self-organised online learning communities and traditional knowledge based guardians of cultural treasures to provide a 360-degree solution to a diverse range of stakeholders?

Welcome to QRpedia.org

Don't Tell The British Museum...

A Quick Example

How It Works Visitor scans the QR code

How It Works Phone's web browser opens the URL embedded in the QR Code http://qrwp.org/Rossetta_Stone

How It Works QRWP detects the phone's language and automatically sends the phone to the
language specific &
mobile friendly
Wikipedia article

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossetta_Stone

http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein_von_Rosette

http://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 羅塞塔石碑

Dealing With Other Languages
25% - 50% of visitors to UK museums are foreigners*
Not every museum is in the UK
English is not the “most important” language on Wikipedia.
* http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/doing_business_with_us/facts_and_figures.aspx * http://www.vam.ac.uk/about_va/international/international/index.html

Dealing With Other Languages
In France, the Mona Lisa is called “La Joconde”

La Joconde http://fr.qrwp.org/La_Joconde

To Recap
A QR code for every exhibit
Linked to Mobile Wikipedia
Automatically detect the visitor's language
Low capital cost
Low administration overhead

Thank You [email_address] - http://shkspr.mobi/blog/ - @edent +44 7717 512 963

Why use QRWP codes?
Cheap!
Quick and easy to create and print.
Continually updated
Multi-Lingual
Most articles available in >5 language
Up to 150 languages available
Accessible
Anyone with a phone can access

Why use QRWP codes?
If you have a limitless budget to continually update the information on your 100,000 plus artefacts then you don't need QR codes.
If you can supply most of your information in 5 or 6 languages and occasionally in 150 languages then you don't need QRWP codes
If your alternative is more accessible then the law will not oblige you to use other external sources

Opportunities
Accessibility – Wikipedia can supply Simple English, Spoken Articles, Just pictures
Wikipedia has several sister projects with a similar structure to Wikipedia e.g. Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikispecies or Wikibooks

History
1994 Toyota create a Quick response 2D bar code
200? Mobile phones get cameras and access to the web
201? Phone companies pre-install QR code readers
2011 Wikipedia geek debate on “QR Codes in Museum”
2011 Demo of QR demo at Derby blogged by @edent
Multi-lingual QR code Algorithm developed by @edent and @victuallers
Programming complete and QRWP live 30 March 2011
April 9 th - here

http://qrpedia.org	132
http://www.scoop.it	62
http://libguides.law.harvard.edu	51
http://shkspr.mobi	42
http://storify.com	29
http://paper.li	20
http://lanyrd.com	3
http://tweetedtimes.com	1
http://www.slideshare.net	1
http://translate.googleusercontent.com	1
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com	1
http://guides.library.harvard.edu	1

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