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                    <span style="font-size:14px;">Maritime memorials, visualised</span><br/>
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                    By: Fiona Romeo
For: Museums Computer Group Spring Conference 2008
Wednesday 23rd April, 2008, Swansea<br /><br />
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Slide 1:Maritime memorials, visualised

Slide 2: Background • We digitised over 200 relics of Sir John Franklin, who disappeared while trying to find the North West Passage in 1848 • The objects are difficult to ‘read’ in isolation - pork bones, cutlery and broken glasses... • Google Maps provided an obvious way to: Brings the expedition to life. – link objects to places Tells a story – show the distances between the places • Added benefit: –

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