mobile access to island heritage
Dr John Holliday (chair, An Iodhlann)
Janet Bowler (archivist)
Mark Vale (director CIT & developer)
Alan Dix (interaction design, semweb
& Tiree Tech Wave)

An Iodhlann
Tiree Historical Centre
founded 1992
housed in old ‘reading room’
staffed by volunteers
and P/T archivist
12,000 catalogued items
maps, land records,
photos, audio tapes, ...

An Iodhlann – online!
main website
catalogue online
special site
tireeplacenames

cultural heritage problem
information at An Iodhlann
not
on the ground in the island
20,000 summer visitors to Tiree
only ~ 1000 pa enter An Iodhlann
... and demographic ... mature ...

idea! ... mobile access
better availability for those
who already visit An Iodhlann
offer information to people, where they are, on the ground
new availability for
those who don’t
esp. younger!
attract fresh visitors
into An Iodhlann

challenges ... density of visitors
Edinburgh Castle
Tiree crowds
=> no special installations
no guides on the ground

challenges ... mobile signal!
cannot stream data
=> downloaded app
=> limited content
good news –
no hills, no buildings
=> GPS good 

so ...

HTML5 off-line app
– platform independent
data-driven
– for extensibility and external use
launched 16th March 2013

pains
– HTML5 not what it says on the box
– existing data not as clean as we thought
joys
– change of practice in archiving – geocode all
=> change in existing web presence
– offline maps and wonky maps
– customisation e.g., Tiree Wave Classic, Tiree Tech Wave
I hate
sometimes ...

plus … first season
– 1889 downloads
– 20% increase in An Iodhlann footfall
– doubled website traffic
– Tiree Memories Facebook group

more information
Frasan app:
http://www.aniodhlann.org.uk/projects/frasan/
Tiree Tech Wave
http://tireetechwave.org/