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2022
Presentation
Locating a national collection through audience research
Locating a National Collection (LaNC) aims to help cultural heritage organisations to use location data — such as where objects were made and used or the places they depict and describe — to connect collections and engage audiences. Location-based interfaces such as web maps offer opportunities to open up collections...Rees, Gethin
Interface design, Geography, Location, Web maps, Cultural Heritage, and Metadata
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2022
Conference paper (published)
Locating a National Collection through Audience Research DH2022 Long Abstract
This abstract was submitted to the DH2022 conference where I presented a long paper. It explores how geography can help to engage the public with digital cultural heritage collections. It draws on audience research that examined values and motivations in the UK alongside the use of location-based interfaces such as...Rees, Gethin ; Vitale, Valeria ; Hunt, Alex ; Horgan, John ; Strachan, Peter
location, metadata, web maps, geography, cultural heritage, and interface design
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2021
Presentation
Locating a National Collection
Locating a National Collection (LaNC) aims to help cultural heritage organisations to use location data — such as where objects were made and used or the places they depict and describe — to connect collections and engage audiences. Location-based interfaces such as web maps offer opportunities to open up collections...Rees, Gethin ; Vitale, Valeria
Interface design, Geography, Location, Web maps, Cultural Heritage, and Metadata
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2012
Abstract
Uncertain Date, Uncertain Place: Interpreting the History of Jewish Communities in the Byzantine Empire using GIS
The presentation will address the problem of how to display uncertain historical data in a web-based Geographical Information System (GIS). In recent years the use of internet GIS has allowed the general public to access large volumes of spatial data. Although GIS has been applied in specific areas of academic...Rees, Gethin