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The THETA project with the Galson Estate Trust.
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Galson Estate Trust
Tourism, Heritage, Environment: Technology Applications
THETA
The Key Points
• Giving tourists a direct experience of heritage resources
• Mobilising community participation
• Authenticity through user generated content
• Integrated platform of proven applications
• Exploiting eCommerce opportunities
• High-tech, Low-cost, High sustainability
The Process
1) Set up and inter-link open source and/or freeware applications
2) Various community training workshops
3) Galson Estate Trust assumes leadership of content management
4) Trust exploits consultancy and merchandising spin-offs
5) Whole community benefits
Ecology of Applications
• What’s Happening? – Blog Site• Where it is Happening – Google Maps
• History and Stories – Wikis in English & Gaelic• Music sampler
• Learn about the landscape – Podcasts• The community and its residents – Flickr
• The community and its residents – YouTube • Community Calendar for – Events
• Online purchasing – eShop• Galson Estate in Wikipedia
Conclusion• Innovation
– Unlocking of under-used local heritage resources
• Partnership– Local + regional + national– Business + voluntary + academic
• Technology – Open source mash-ups and Web 2.0
• Customer Focus– Fuller service for tourists plus local ownership
Home Page
Countryside Ranger’s Blog Site
Galson Estate on Google Maps
Wiki Information Sites
Music Sampler
• Taigh Donnachaidh Fiddlers
• Ness melodeon band
Landscape Podcasts
• Introduction to the Geology
Link to Flickr
Link to YouTube
eCommerce and Merchandising
Community Calendar
Galson Estate on Wikipedia
Wiki an Urras