The document introduces QRpedia.org, a project that uses QR codes linked to Wikipedia articles to provide museum visitors information about exhibits. QR codes on exhibits are scanned by visitors' phones, which then opens the article in their preferred language (automatically detected). This provides a low-cost, multi-lingual, and continually updated source of information for museums. Benefits include accessibility for anyone with a phone, articles available in over 150 languages, and cheap/easy implementation compared to developing custom content in many languages.

2. Introducing Qrpedia.org Bamkin and Eden

4. Mobile Internet Consultant with 8 years experience in Mobile Web

5. Questions? Please interrupt me!

6. Shy? Tweet me - @edent

7. Bored? Read my blog http://shkspr.mobi/blog/

9. Wikipedian admin

10. GLAM Ambassador - Working for a year with the Derby Museum and British Museum to make the best use of Wikipedia.

11. What's a Barcode?

13. Hold a single number

14. Client has to query a database to find out what the number means More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode

17. Can hold URLs

18. Quick and easy to scan

19. Works on all cameraphones not just “smartphones”

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

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

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

29. The Rossetta Stone Today

30. Not So Learned Men* *And women!

32. Mono-Lingual

34. Multi -Lingual

35. Evolving

36. 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?

37. Welcome to QRpedia.org

38. Don't Tell The British Museum...

39. A Quick Example

40. How It Works Visitor scans the QR code

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

43. mobile friendly Wikipedia article

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

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

46. http://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 羅塞塔石碑

48. Not every museum is in the UK

49. 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

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

53. Linked to Mobile Wikipedia

54. Automatically detect the visitor's language

55. Low capital cost

56. Low administration overhead

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

62. 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

63. If your alternative is more accessible then the law will not oblige you to use other external sources

65. Wikipedia has several sister projects with a similar structure to Wikipedia e.g. Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikispecies or Wikibooks

67. 200? Mobile phones get cameras and access to the web

68. 201? Phone companies pre-install QR code readers

69. 2011 Wikipedia geek debate on “QR Codes in Museum”

70. 2011 Demo of QR demo at Derby blogged by @edent

71. Multi-lingual QR code Algorithm developed by @edent and @victuallers

72. Programming complete and QRWP live 30 March 2011

73. April 9 th - here