For Immediate Release: 31/07/2012 Photo Opportunity: Workshop being held at Cefnlen, National Eisteddfod Maes, Monday 6th August 10am. Headline: An App to Tell the World About Your Place On Monday 6th August at the National Eisteddfod the People’s Collection Wales, University of Nottingham and Swansea University will showcase Placebooks, an innovative, bi-lingual, online toolkit that [...]

We’ll be presenting at UKAD 2012 at the National Archives in Kew on the 21st, along with the BBC, British library and LSE to name but a few. For anyone interested in linked data and archives, this is the place to be.

If your around please say hello to Alan Chamberlain or Mark Davies at Rural Needs in Scotland 2012. ‘Rural Needs in Scotland’ A SICSA Smart Tourism and dot.rural event, 16 March 2012, University of Aberdeen We are pleased to confirm that our next event will be held on the topic of ‘rural needs in Scotland’. [...]

Research in the Wild – at DIS 2012 (ACM) Website: http://www.researchinthewild.org We are starting to see a paradigm shift within the field of HCI. We are witnessing researchers leaving the safety and security of their controlled, lab-based environments and moving their research out into ‘the wild’. Their studies are carrying out in-situ development and extended [...]

Dr Alan Chamberlain (Nottingham University) will be presenting –  Placebooks; Community based e-trails at the Digital Past 2012: New technologies in heritage, interpretation and outreach - conference – 22-23 February 2012, Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales. The presentation is available to download here

The project has been moving on and we’ve been working with the community and meeting lots of different people and hearing about their needs and interests. We’ve also organised and been to some really interesting workshops, in particular it was great to go to the Digital Innovation Workshop (organised by Inventorium). We’ve also been talking [...]

Today we went to Borth/Ynyslas in order to fond out what mobile phone networks exist in the area and how strong the signal is. We took a range of phones (running Android and our own software) each with a different network’s SIM card. We followed a route that was given to us by the Countryside [...]

The ‘rural divide’ project has kicked off to a great start, after having our first intro.. Welcome to the first post about the project. Peter and I spent a couple of days doing fieldwork: filming, photographing, interviewing and visiting sites of interest prior to the fist meeting. This was done in order to get an [...]

Though the Internet seems to permeate every aspect of our life, it is still largely an urban phenomenon. Both in terms of access to digital services and the development of rural digital mapping on services like Google maps, the focus has so far been on urban environments. The Schools of Computer Science at and Swansea [...]