Virtual Heritage Journeys through Digital Maps Workshop | Session 4

Maps provide a great way to look at the world and to organise heritage information. Digital maps are better still because they let us link engaging media to relevant locations and take people on virtual journeys. What is more millions of people use digital maps such as Google Maps each day, making it easy for them to join virtual heritage journeys we make.

Part 1: Mapping Our Heritage

Maps help us both to navigate and understand the world. Electronic maps enable us to embed engaging media to create digital heritage experiences. In this session we will explore how to create and use maps to communicate heritage. We will look at how to add content to Google Street view and how to extend it so that it includes images away from the road, which can highlight archaeological sites, historic buildings and museums. We will also look at how we can write reviews to highlight heritage, and create custom maps linking together sites of interest. We will also look at using free maps such as Open Street view and how these can be a platform for embedding immersive and spherical media in.

Part 2: Advanced Mapping Experiences

In this session we will look at examples of how mapping has been used to communicate heritage. We will draw upon experience in using smart heritage mapping to commemorate WW1 deaths in Scotland, understanding the Windrush migration from Barbados and tracing journeys across a medieval glacier in Iceland.

About Digital Heritage Workshops: Bringing Museums to the Home

In response to the impact of Covid-19, *CUPIDO European Interreg cultural heritage project has collaborated with XpoNorth Heritage to hold a programme of eight online digital skills workshops aimed at the Heritage sector and facilitated by Dr Alan Miller and Catherine Anne Cassidy, from the Open Virtual Worlds Group at the University of St Andrews. The workshops are designed to help heritage organisations develop the skills to connect with existing and potential new audiences through digital media, covering topics such as digitising collections, photogrammetry, working with phones and commodity cameras to create 360 degree images and videos.

The impact of COVID-19 on the heritage sector has been huge with museums and visitor centres closed and potential visitors confined to their homes. At the same time there has been a flourishing of online heritage interactions, often through social media and accessible via devices available in the home.

This series of workshops aims to facilitate the sharing of skills and resources, whilst helping to equip heritage professional and volunteers in working with heritage online.

About CUPIDO

CUPIDO (Culture power: to inspire development in rural areas) Interreg North Sea Region cultural project is a cultural heritage project. Its overarching aim is about developing new business opportunities in the cultural and cultural heritage sector. This is to reinforce the economic position, competitiveness and social inclusion of local rural communities. CUPIDO is cultural activities such as art, dance, music and cultural heritage. The project has 16 partners from 7 countries and runs from 2019 to 2021.

Through CUPIDO, Highlands and Islands Enterprise has partnered with University of St Andrews to work with communities and social enterprises across the region on a programme of transnational digital activities designed to help commercialise the culture sector. More information about the CUPIDO project can be found here https://northsearegion.eu/cupi... and www.cupidoeu.org

Inspired by the #museumathome, #cultureathome and #heritageathome this series of workshops will help and support heritage volunteers, professionals and organisations connect audiences with both cultural and natural heritage.

A Facebook group called “Heritage Studio” will provide access to resources, opportunity for discussion and links to recording of past workshops. Feel free to join the group at:

www.facebook.com/groups/herita...

The CUPIDO archive and virtual museum system will provide a place to put things you create in the workshops and help connect it with the workshop activities.

www.cupidoeu.org

The Open Virtual Worlds group is an interdisciplinary group based in the Interaction Lab, School of Computer Science in St Andrews University. Over the years they have collaborated with the Timespan Museum and Archive in many projects and are pleased Timespan will be contributing their expertise to these workshops. The workshops will also feature work from across the Highlands and Islands including the Tahai Chearsabhagh Museum, Highlanders Museum, Shetland Museum and North isles Landscape Partnership.

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