The capture and sharing of intangible values via digital media

Rebecca Hawcroft, Canberra UniversityPeopleplacestories.com.au

In The Hands of The People

Digital is Everywhere….

• 2.4 billion internet users worldwide• 4.5 billion mobile users worldwide-

about ¼ with internet connected ‘Smartphones’ (and rising)

• 70% to 90% of adults use social media• 100,000 text edits a day on Trove• 1.7 billion Wikipedia edits to date• Fitbits and growth of wearable data

gathering devices

Location is important

• Location sorts data and makes connections

• Smartphones with GPS let you – tell your networks where you are – access location specific information

• Google maps— open and accessible • Interactions with places are recorded

in many and varied ways

Digital is a community space• Our relationships are increasingly

conducted through digital networks.• It is where we – create our identities, – share our values and –make connections.

How can we use it?

• The sentiments are not new- the means of recording and sharing are

• Most digital interactions are available as collaborative and open access data

• Provide tangible evidence• What is out there and what is it

telling us?

Where People Run—http://flowingdata.com/2014/02/05/where-people-run/

Instagram http://instagram.com

Iconosquare http://iconosquare.com

#captureParklandia

Portland Art Museum http://www.portlandartmuseum.org/special/tuileriesgarden/captureparklandia

Iconosquare http://iconosquare.com

Geochirp- http://www.geochirp.com/main.php

Stweet- http://www.we-love-the.net/Stweet/

TweetAround- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vbh7nHalCc

• geonotes

Wikimapia.org

History Pin Project- ‘This used to be fields’- History of the Beconsfield Estate, East London

https://www.historypin.org/project

Findery—https://findery.com/MixTape/notemaps/about-place

Black Saturday—http://www.abc.net.au/innovation/blacksaturday

Wrap up…

• Digital is recording intangible heritage in all sorts of ways

• Changing expectations of use and access to information

• Increasingly complex overlay of digital information and physical locations

• Increasing importance of collaborative platforms