The capture and sharing of intangible values via digital media. Presentation made at the - ICOMOS Australia- Intangible Cultural Heritage Symposium: Grasping the intangible at heritage places, Melbourne 2014.

1. The capture and sharing of intangible
values via digital media
Rebecca Hawcroft, Canberra University
Peopleplacestories.com.au
In The Hands of The
People

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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?

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

7. Instagram http://instagram.com

8. Iconosquare http://iconosquare.com

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

10. Iconosquare http://iconosquare.com

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

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

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

14. • geonotes

15. Wikimapia.org

16. History Pin Project- ‘This used to be fields’- History of the Beconsfield Estate, East
London
https://www.historypin.org/project

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

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

19. 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