orkney community digital heritage how to do it
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Orkney Community
Digital Heritage
A project with Centre for Nordic Studies, Orkney Heritage Society and
other community groups
The points of the project
Record and share names and
stories about places in Orkney
Let older people use digital
technology – smart phones and
tablets
What are we interested in recording?
Stories of places Place names Stories of people
Any place, does not have to be “significant”. Personal memories and passed down anecdotes, not just full stories
Especially “lesser” names such as field names, and names of smaller features like rocks, burns, geos, ruins
The people who inhabit these places, today and in the past, who they were, what they did, anecdotes
For example
This is the old Orphir school. I went to school here from 1980-86. It had a “big end”, a “peedie end” and a “middle end”! I remember the playground just being a field, and
we had lots of fun finding insects in the grass. There were only about 50 pupils.
How does it work?
• Edina Fieldtrip GB app for smart phones• Places your spot on a map• Asks you questions• You can record written text or sound• You can take photos there and then• You can upload things, such as scans of
old photos• All saved to a dropbox• Centre for Nordic Studies move contents
of dropbox to a website
First, switch on the “tablet”
Put your finger hereHold it in for a while
Using a “tablet” borrowed from Centre for Nordic Studies
Unlock it
Put your finger on the padlockDrag it out of viewThis unlocks the “tablet”
This screen comes upPut your finger on the screen (somewhere in the blue sky or grass, not on an icon)
Drag your finger from right to left
Find the “app” called Fieldtrip GbHere it is!Open it by tapping your finger on the green icon
It warns you not to use it for navigation
Press the “OK” button
Now you are in!
Press here: Capture
Find “Orkney Digital Heritage”Look under “Custom Forms”Find “Orkney Digital Heritage”Press it
Fill in while you are at the relevant placeName of the place or person, e.g. “Old Orkney Arts Theatre” (Not your own name)
Choose from the list: Place, person, place-name, story, object Press here to take a photo Press here and then the red record button to speak Or you can write about it
The GPS knows where you are
To store your recordGo to the bottom by dragging your finger upwards on the screen
Press “save”
To store your record
• Wait while it says “Waiting for GPS fix”• Don’t worry if
you can’t see the map now
To store your record
• It has finished thinking and the GPS knows where you are• Press save
To share your record
• You can store as many records as you want before you share• Go to somewhere with an internet
connection and get online• Go into the Fieldtrip programme
again• Press “log in”
To share your record
Press “Upload records”
It has now been shared!
A tick means it has gone to the “drop-box” and is ready to go on the big map
How to switch it off
Find this at the very bottom of your screenIf it’s all black, touch the black area to make it come upPut your finger on the rectangle
How to switch it offPut your finger hereDrag it awayThat’s it off and you are back to the start screen
Switch the whole thing off by holding in the little button on the edge, which you used to switch it on
If I have my own tablet or smart-phone, how do I get the Fieldtrip Gb programme?• Open an internet browser and go to this address:• http://fieldtripgb.blogs.edina.ac.uk/download
If I have my own tablet or smart-phone, how do I get the Fieldtrip Gb programme?
Press here if you have an iPad or iPhone or other Apple device
Press here if you have a Hudl, Samsung, or other Android device (not Apple)
You need to know your
own password
If I have my own tablet or smart-phone, how do I get the Fieldtrip Gb programme?
• Go to your “apps” and find Fieldtrip GB
• Press “login”
If I have my own tablet of smart-phone, how do I get the Fieldtrip Gb programme?
Orkney Press here
Log in here
If I have my own tablet or smart-phone, how do I get the Fieldtrip Gb programme?
Press “download forms”
If I have my own tablet or smart-phone, how do I get the Fieldtrip Gb programme?
• Choose “Orkney Digital Heritage”
Commonly asked questions
• Do I have to have a smart phone?• You can use your own phone or tablet if you have one. • The app is free to download• Centre for Nordic Studies has some tablets for loan
• What if I can’t get a signal?• No problem -- It works offline as well• All you need is to go somewhere with an internet connection to
upload records now and then
Commonly asked questions
• What type of device do I need?• These certainly work:• Apple (iOS 4.3 and above)• Apple iPhone 4• Apple iPhone 5• Apple iPad 2• Apple iPad 3• Android (Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 and above)• Tesco Hudl 2• iPad
Or borrow one from Centre for Nordic
Studies -- free
What will the outcome be?
• A website• Interactive map of Orkney• Click and bring up locations, place
names, stories of folk and sites, audio recordings, scanned old photos and documents, etc.
Similar project• “ …thousands of
records relating to the genealogy, history, traditions, culture and archaeology of the Western Isles …”
For Orkney, it will look something like this
• -It is still possible to capture and store more data after the end of the project period
Now – September:- Capturing: Out and
about to “your” special places
- Help a friend get started
October – December:- Centre for Nordic Studies
publishes data on the project website
What is the time frame for the project?
Let’s do it!