On the Horizon for Interpretive Education: Augmented RealityAzavea
This presentation was given as part of the On the Horizon for Interpretive Education panel held at the American Public Gardens Association conference held in June 2011 in Philadelphia.
Conference keynote slides for Hainan Conference, November 2019, Hainan China.
Virtual heritage is the combination of virtual reality and cultural heritage. It promises the best features of both, but is difficult to achieve in reality. Why is this so challenging? Has virtual reality offered more than tantalising glimpses of the future in the related fields of cultural heritage and tourism?
The features virtual reality (VR) shares with mixed reality (MR) and augmented reality (AR) are mostly agreed upon, but there are at least two perplexing issues. Technological fusion implies imaginative fusion, and augmented reality had a previous ocular focus.
Virtual reality as a term is also in danger of being replaced by the term XR. What is XR and why is it so potentially useful to heritage tourism? Given VR, AR, MR and XR are typically screen-based, how can screen tourism capitalize of cultural heritage and virtual reality, and on the unique selling points of XR?
I will conclude with a few suggestions and projects we are currently working on or about to commence.
Cite as: K8 Champion, E. (2019). Virtual Heritage, Gaming, & Cultural Tourism, 4th Boao International Tourism Communication Forum (ITCF), Hainan, China, 23-24 November. Interviewed on Chinese television. http://www.baitcf.com/index.php/Ch/Cms/Index/indexe
On the Horizon for Interpretive Education: Augmented RealityAzavea
This presentation was given as part of the On the Horizon for Interpretive Education panel held at the American Public Gardens Association conference held in June 2011 in Philadelphia.
Conference keynote slides for Hainan Conference, November 2019, Hainan China.
Virtual heritage is the combination of virtual reality and cultural heritage. It promises the best features of both, but is difficult to achieve in reality. Why is this so challenging? Has virtual reality offered more than tantalising glimpses of the future in the related fields of cultural heritage and tourism?
The features virtual reality (VR) shares with mixed reality (MR) and augmented reality (AR) are mostly agreed upon, but there are at least two perplexing issues. Technological fusion implies imaginative fusion, and augmented reality had a previous ocular focus.
Virtual reality as a term is also in danger of being replaced by the term XR. What is XR and why is it so potentially useful to heritage tourism? Given VR, AR, MR and XR are typically screen-based, how can screen tourism capitalize of cultural heritage and virtual reality, and on the unique selling points of XR?
I will conclude with a few suggestions and projects we are currently working on or about to commence.
Cite as: K8 Champion, E. (2019). Virtual Heritage, Gaming, & Cultural Tourism, 4th Boao International Tourism Communication Forum (ITCF), Hainan, China, 23-24 November. Interviewed on Chinese television. http://www.baitcf.com/index.php/Ch/Cms/Index/indexe
Abstract:
Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) defines a practice where GIS technology and methods are used in support of public participation and decision making in a number of domain applications (Sieber, 2000). PPGIS is viewed as a top-down process where a central authority identifies a problem, the stakeholders and the best way to address it (Ghose, 2007). Current advances in the GeoWeb are challenging the top-down purview of PPGIS in that more citizens are directly engaging with tools that enable the collection and communication of place-based knowledge by non-experts. This emerging process raises pertinent questions, including: How is knowledge of place expressed, and to what extent is it relevant to PPGIS? This talk will highlight local research that centered on Edmonton’s river valley trail network where 17 informants were interviewed regarding their knowledge of place, in addition to their collection and communication of place-based information. This research will address the crowdsourcing of such information through the GeoWeb as a means of replacing traditional, authority controlled, PPGIS processes. We will demonstrate that individuals possess a complex, detailed and nuanced understanding of place. And, finally, we will discuss the current limits and future trends of the GeoWeb’s ability to capture that depth of understanding.
GeoWeb Concepts, Tools and ApplicationsMatthew Dance
This was an invited presentation to the University of Alberta's Human Geography and Planning 100 class. As the title implies, I provided a brief overview of GeoWeb concepts, tools and provided an overview of the maps I found most interesting in the past couple of months.
Abstract. This paper discusses a simplified workflow and interactive learning opportunities for exporting map and location data using a free tool, Recogito into a Unity game environment with a simple virtual museum room template. The aim was to create simple interactive virtual museums for humanities scholars and students with a minimum of programming or gaming experience, while still allowing for interesting time-related tasks. The virtual environment template was created for the Oculus Quest and controllers but can be easily adapted to other head-mounted displays or run on a normal desktop computer. Although this is an experimental design, it is part of a project to increase the use of time-layered cultural data and related mapping technology by humanities researchers.
OrangeNXT - High accuracy mapping from videos for efficient fiber optic cable...BigDataExpo
Construction companies such as BAM Infra Telecom rely on accurate, up-to-date maps. Google Maps isn’t enough, but doing on-site surveys is expensive and time-consuming. However, driving through and recording 360° video from a car is cheap and easy. Using machine learning, we turn videos into highly accurate maps.
Edwin Seroussi and Josef Sprinzak, Da'at Hamakom Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in Jewish Modernity, The Hebrew University
Mapping Jewish Culture in Time and Place: The Interactive Map of Da'at Hamakom
2016 EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
http://2016.minervaisrael.org.il
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
Edwin Seroussi and Josef Sprinzak, Da'at Hamakom Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in Jewish Modernity, The Hebrew University
Mapping Jewish Culture in Time and Place: The Interactive Map of Da'at Hamakom
2016 EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
http://2016.minervaisrael.org.il
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. The acronym GIS is sometimes used for geographical information science or geospatial information studies to refer to the academic discipline or career of working with geographic information systems and is a large domain within the broader academic discipline of Geoinformatics. In the simplest terms, GIS is the merging of cartography, statistical analysis, and computer science technology.
Creating an Online Digital Consortium for Historic CollectionsAzavea
"From Cardboard Boxes to Google Maps: How Multiple Institutions’ Digital Collections Can Find a New Life on the Internet as a Consortium" was originally presented at the Museums and the Web conference, April 13-17, 2010, in Denver, Colorado,
Engage on the go:Mastering Mobile Content Delivery (presentation at the Ameri...Layla Masri Soares
This session outlined exactly how mobile users want to interact on the go, focusing on the types of ideal content and features to offer and popular tools that make it fast and inexpensive to build and maintain mobile offerings.
Speakers:
Layla Masri, President, Bean Creative
Nancy Proctor, Head of Mobile for the Smithsonian Institution
Liz Neely, Director of Digital Information and Access at the Art Institute of Chicago
(presentation given at the American Association of Museums in May 2012
Anticipating a spike in Titanic-related questions, reference librarians at the public library researched Halifax’s Titanic connections in advance of the 2012 centenary. A number of sites in the city with Titanic significance were identified, and various historic documents, maps, directories and photographs were used to pin-point their current-day locations. Recent advances in mobile technology enabled a novel approach to compiling the information for the public. A mobile-friendly self-guided tour was developed using a variety of social media and location-based apps including Google Maps, Foursquare, Flickr and Layar. These tools allowed us to capitalize on the geolocation and mapping capabilities of the powerful little computers people carry around with them, without the need for significant technical expertise on our part. By presenting history in geographic context we hoped to enhance the experience for users and bring to life the role our city played in the tragic events of 1912.
Social Georeferencing: A Model for LibrariesGlen Farrelly
I have conducted survey and ethnographic research that has shown people value geographically relevant information and that they will georeference information themselves for a variety of motivations.
Yet the current mechanisms in library collections to georeference information through automation or manual effort are often not sufficient. Current projects are providing online, collaborative tools to allow people to georeference material. This crowdsourcing model of social georeferencing is not only scalable but also allows people to determine the place of information resources that they find meaningful.
This presentation will introduce the core concepts of geographic relevance, georeferencing mechanisms, geosocial networking, and locative technology to present a model for libraries to consider that may help bring their collections into the field.
Abstract:
Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) defines a practice where GIS technology and methods are used in support of public participation and decision making in a number of domain applications (Sieber, 2000). PPGIS is viewed as a top-down process where a central authority identifies a problem, the stakeholders and the best way to address it (Ghose, 2007). Current advances in the GeoWeb are challenging the top-down purview of PPGIS in that more citizens are directly engaging with tools that enable the collection and communication of place-based knowledge by non-experts. This emerging process raises pertinent questions, including: How is knowledge of place expressed, and to what extent is it relevant to PPGIS? This talk will highlight local research that centered on Edmonton’s river valley trail network where 17 informants were interviewed regarding their knowledge of place, in addition to their collection and communication of place-based information. This research will address the crowdsourcing of such information through the GeoWeb as a means of replacing traditional, authority controlled, PPGIS processes. We will demonstrate that individuals possess a complex, detailed and nuanced understanding of place. And, finally, we will discuss the current limits and future trends of the GeoWeb’s ability to capture that depth of understanding.
GeoWeb Concepts, Tools and ApplicationsMatthew Dance
This was an invited presentation to the University of Alberta's Human Geography and Planning 100 class. As the title implies, I provided a brief overview of GeoWeb concepts, tools and provided an overview of the maps I found most interesting in the past couple of months.
Abstract. This paper discusses a simplified workflow and interactive learning opportunities for exporting map and location data using a free tool, Recogito into a Unity game environment with a simple virtual museum room template. The aim was to create simple interactive virtual museums for humanities scholars and students with a minimum of programming or gaming experience, while still allowing for interesting time-related tasks. The virtual environment template was created for the Oculus Quest and controllers but can be easily adapted to other head-mounted displays or run on a normal desktop computer. Although this is an experimental design, it is part of a project to increase the use of time-layered cultural data and related mapping technology by humanities researchers.
OrangeNXT - High accuracy mapping from videos for efficient fiber optic cable...BigDataExpo
Construction companies such as BAM Infra Telecom rely on accurate, up-to-date maps. Google Maps isn’t enough, but doing on-site surveys is expensive and time-consuming. However, driving through and recording 360° video from a car is cheap and easy. Using machine learning, we turn videos into highly accurate maps.
Edwin Seroussi and Josef Sprinzak, Da'at Hamakom Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in Jewish Modernity, The Hebrew University
Mapping Jewish Culture in Time and Place: The Interactive Map of Da'at Hamakom
2016 EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
http://2016.minervaisrael.org.il
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
Edwin Seroussi and Josef Sprinzak, Da'at Hamakom Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in Jewish Modernity, The Hebrew University
Mapping Jewish Culture in Time and Place: The Interactive Map of Da'at Hamakom
2016 EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
http://2016.minervaisrael.org.il
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. The acronym GIS is sometimes used for geographical information science or geospatial information studies to refer to the academic discipline or career of working with geographic information systems and is a large domain within the broader academic discipline of Geoinformatics. In the simplest terms, GIS is the merging of cartography, statistical analysis, and computer science technology.
Creating an Online Digital Consortium for Historic CollectionsAzavea
"From Cardboard Boxes to Google Maps: How Multiple Institutions’ Digital Collections Can Find a New Life on the Internet as a Consortium" was originally presented at the Museums and the Web conference, April 13-17, 2010, in Denver, Colorado,
Engage on the go:Mastering Mobile Content Delivery (presentation at the Ameri...Layla Masri Soares
This session outlined exactly how mobile users want to interact on the go, focusing on the types of ideal content and features to offer and popular tools that make it fast and inexpensive to build and maintain mobile offerings.
Speakers:
Layla Masri, President, Bean Creative
Nancy Proctor, Head of Mobile for the Smithsonian Institution
Liz Neely, Director of Digital Information and Access at the Art Institute of Chicago
(presentation given at the American Association of Museums in May 2012
Anticipating a spike in Titanic-related questions, reference librarians at the public library researched Halifax’s Titanic connections in advance of the 2012 centenary. A number of sites in the city with Titanic significance were identified, and various historic documents, maps, directories and photographs were used to pin-point their current-day locations. Recent advances in mobile technology enabled a novel approach to compiling the information for the public. A mobile-friendly self-guided tour was developed using a variety of social media and location-based apps including Google Maps, Foursquare, Flickr and Layar. These tools allowed us to capitalize on the geolocation and mapping capabilities of the powerful little computers people carry around with them, without the need for significant technical expertise on our part. By presenting history in geographic context we hoped to enhance the experience for users and bring to life the role our city played in the tragic events of 1912.
Social Georeferencing: A Model for LibrariesGlen Farrelly
I have conducted survey and ethnographic research that has shown people value geographically relevant information and that they will georeference information themselves for a variety of motivations.
Yet the current mechanisms in library collections to georeference information through automation or manual effort are often not sufficient. Current projects are providing online, collaborative tools to allow people to georeference material. This crowdsourcing model of social georeferencing is not only scalable but also allows people to determine the place of information resources that they find meaningful.
This presentation will introduce the core concepts of geographic relevance, georeferencing mechanisms, geosocial networking, and locative technology to present a model for libraries to consider that may help bring their collections into the field.
IET Technology Coffee Morning - Location-based learning: education in the WildLiz FitzGerald
Slides presented at the IET Technology Coffee Morning at the Open University.
Abstract and further details available at http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2350.
Using Mobile to Increase Engagement at Northern Arizona Universitygreenoch
In this session, Chris will share how northern Arizona university is using mobile to change the way it's community connects with the university. Learn about he university's vision for mobile, their approach, how their strategy fits in with their other technology and student service initiatives, and their rollout of blackboard mobile central. See how they're using the app to engage with their communities on and off campus, online and across mobile platforms, and the impact it's already had in just a few months.
When starting a new mapping project, it's easy to get lost along the way. This presentation helps identify audiences, key contributors, and offers some tips and tricks.
One of presentations given in "Where's the University?": building an institutional geolocation service: Janet McKnight and Sebastian Rahtz, Oxford University Computing Services- parallel session given at Institutional Web Management Workshop 2009, University of Essex, 28 - 30, July 2009.
See http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/sessions/mcknight/ and
http://lanyrd.com/2009/iwmw09/srfym/
Presented at EDUCAUSE 2009 in Denver, Colorado on November 5, 2009 by Michael Howser and William (Bill) Miller from the University of Connecticut Libraries Map and Geographic Information Center - MAGIC.
Innovations in Mobile Applications - Building the UNH Mobile App Suite UNHInnovation
The UNH Mobile App Development Team recently released UNH Mobile App Suite, which features 18 modules within a customizable homescreen enabling users to hide, show, and reorder icons to their preference. In this presentation, the UNH Mobile App Development Team elaborates on their experience building out the suite, which was a collaborative effort between the IT and New & Emerging Media departments.
Using New Tools to Analyze and Plan Your Urban Forest Azavea
Planting locations are often determined by organization goals, available funding, practical logistics that influence the number of trees you can plant and where you can plant them, and dozens of other factors. With the new toolkit from OpenTreeMap you can use existing sociodemographic and land-use data to make more informed planting decisions, and estimate the future environmental and economic benefits of your trees.
7 misconceptions about predictive policing webinarAzavea
Over the last few years, Predictive Policing has become more common in police departments around the world. With the rising interest in crime forecasting tools, important questions concerning ethics, privacy and fairness have been raised. We know that there are some misconceptions when it comes to the topic, and we want to dispel some of the common myths about Predictive Policing.
We invite you to join us as we walk through 7 Misconceptions of Predictive Policing. In this webinar, we aim to discuss some of the charged rhetoric and beliefs that surround the term. Also, we will highlight the some of the diverse crime modeling concepts that are used to make robust, predictions when forecasting crime.
OpenTreeMap is a platform that enables individuals and organizations to map and inventory their urban forest. This webinar provides an overview of OpenTreeMap's Green Infrastructure module and was given by Azavea on November 11, 2015. For more information on OpenTreeMap visit www.opentreemap.org or email us at opentreemap@azavea.com.
Growing Your Urban Forest: Using the OpenTreeMap Bulk UploaderAzavea
The "Growing Your Urban Forest: Using the OpenTreeMap Bulk Uploader" webinar was held on April 16, 2015. These slides provide an overview of that webinar.
Forecasting Space-Time Events - Strata + Hadoop World 2015 San JoseAzavea
This presentation uses the speaker’s experience in building a crime forecasting package to outline some tools and techniques useful in modeling space-time event data. While the case study focuses on modeling crime, the techniques and tools presented are applicable to a broad selection of domains.
This presentation was given at Strata + Hadoop World 2015 in San Jose by Jeremy Heffner.
November 12, 2014 Webinar: Hackers, Beer Geeks, and Arborly Love - Reaching o...Azavea
In this webinar based on our 2014 Partners in Community Forestry conference presentation, Andrew Thompson (OpenTreeMap), Erica Smith Fichman (TreePhilly), and Lee Mueller (Friends of Grand Rapids Parks) talked about three outreach events our organizations have done in urban forestry, and discussed tips and tricks your urban forestry group can use with your events and marketing to expand to new audiences. This webinar covered:
- A general framework for organizing events and campaigns geared toward exciting audiences and communities with little experience with urban forestry
- Pointers, tips, caveats, and potential downfalls to keep in mind to organize a successful event
- "Lessons learned" from three specific case studies organized by a government, nonprofit, and commercial company
This presentation covers the requirements to get started with HunchLab 2.0's predictive policing system. It starts discussing technical requirements (security, authentication) and then proceeds to discuss guidelines for configuring meaningful predictive models of crime. The presentation concludes with information about related geographic and temporal datasets that are useful in forecasting crime with recommendations on how to prioritize data sets to use in HunchLab.
Is it a Package or a Wrapper? Designing, Documenting, and Distributing a Pyth...Azavea
Andrew Thompson delivered this talk at the January 2014 joint meeting of the PhillyPUG Python User's Group and the GeoPhilly GIS Meetup group. Topics covered include Rest APIs, API wrappers, Python documentation tools, and Python module packaging practices and the Python Package Index.
Using Open Data and Citizen Science to Promote Citizen Engagement with Green ...Azavea
Presentation given at the Green Infrastructure and Water Management in Growing Metropolitan Areas conference on January 15, 2014 at the Patel College of Global Sustainability at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.
This document presents a preview of the new version of HunchLab with a focus on geographic modeling. HunchLab 2.0 allows police departments to prioritize resource deployments by using predictive analytics that take into account many data sets and reflect the priorities of the police department. The webinar was recorded on September 25th, 2013.
Five Technology Trends Every Nonprofit Needs to KnowAzavea
Are you tired of hearing about big data, social media, web 2.0, and other buzzwords? This session will introduce five emerging technology trends that will fundamentally impact the independent sector. Join us and learn how to incorporate them into your current plans to better reach your donors, engage your constituents, and maximize your impact.
PhillyHistory.org - Tracking Metrics for a Digital ProjectAzavea
Presentation given at the Delaware Valley Archivists Group meeting on March 21, 2013. The slides provide an overview of how visitor statistics and user engagement are measured on PhillyHistory.org and how similar tracking may be done on other digital history projects.
Data Philly Meetup for 2/19/2013 on geospatial data science with crime data and applications of GeoTrellis to solve challenges related to large data sets.
1. GIS and Digital History
September 14, 2010
340 N 12th St, Suite 402
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215.925.2600
info@azavea.com
www.azavea.com
2. About Azavea
• Founded in 2000
• 25 people
• Based in Philadelphia
– Boston satellite office
• Geospatial + web
• Software design & development
• Spatial analysis services
3. How Can GIS Help?
• Draw on the public’s strong connection to location
• Connect the past to the present
• Bring together multiple collections
• Assist with making new connections
• Provide access via mobile based technologies
• Possibly generate revenue
14. Mobile Access
• Geographic searches
• Location aware
• An iPhone web app
also accessible via
Android
• No administrative
functions
• Brings collections out of
the institution
• http://www.phillyhistory.org/i/
15. Using Augmented Reality to Connect
the Past and the Present
• Data or images appear on your
smart phone and tell you more
about the physical structure or
environment you are viewing
• Build for iPhone and Google
Android
• Engage students in the study of
history, architecture, and
photography
• Overlays of 500 historic
photographs of locations
around the city
• Additional contextual
Students and pretzel vendor at West Philadelphia High School, 1934. information for 20 images
16. Mapping the DuBois Philadelphia Negro
• Uses data gathered in 1896 by W.E.B. DuBois as part of a
survey of Philadelphia’s 7th Ward
• Data transformed into dynamic map layers
• Students and other public users can use the GIS to
explore and analyze the data
A historic W.E.B DuBois map (c. 1896) mapping data on African-Americans living in Philadelphia’s 7th ward.
17. AfricaMap
• Developed with Harvard
University, Center for
Geographic Analysis
• A web application that
provides search and display
for maps and data from
various sources
• Creates new opportunities
for making cross disciplinary
connections
18. • Muralfarm
(http://muralfarm.org)
– City of Philadelphia Mural
Arts Program
– Mobile survey tool to
update database &
collect field data
– Powered by Sajara, the
same digital asset
management software
behind PhillyHistory.org
19. Challenges
• Geographic information may not be tracked for each
asset
• Addresses and street plans may have changed over
time
• Location associated with an asset may be unknown or
disputable
• Location based projects garner much public interest,
requiring staff time for responses
20. Benefits
• Geographic information can be used for other
projects
• Attract public attention to your collections
• Introduce collections to new audiences
• Take advantage of location based mobile
technology
• Possibly generate revenue