Locating Communications Heritage » introduction http://sciencemuseumdiscovery.com/blogs/locatingheritage engaging the user through mobile services Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:31:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Welcome to our Research Network http://sciencemuseumdiscovery.com/blogs/locatingheritage/welcome-to-our-research-network/ http://sciencemuseumdiscovery.com/blogs/locatingheritage/welcome-to-our-research-network/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:20:42 +0000 Tilly Blyth, Curator of Computing and Information http://sciencemuseumdiscovery.com/blogs/locatingheritage/?p=17 Imagine you are on a journey across Britain. The landscape you pass through is rich in historical meaning, yet the knowledge of this history is compartmentalised: some lies in everyday experiences and memories, some lies in scholarly monographs, some is found on display (and even more, behind the scenes) in our great museums. We live [...]]]> Imagine you are on a journey across Britain. The landscape you pass through is rich in historical meaning, yet the knowledge of this history is compartmentalised: some lies in everyday experiences and memories, some lies in scholarly monographs, some is found on display (and even more, behind the scenes) in our great museums. We live in an old
country – but its meaning can be disconnected and hidden. Surprisingly this situation is true even for the aspects of our lives that seem so modern, so vivid, so everyday: the communications technologies that we use to organise our lives.

This research network will look at how we can reconnect this meaning to our lives. It will explore the potential benefits of and barriers to the creation of a mobile and web service in the history of communications. The project will develop a small pilot service to look at what happens when users can access, view and create the history of communications technology in relevant locations. Through the pilot project the research will share knowledge across a network of academic historians of science and technology, museum professionals, commercial partners, and users.

Find out more about this project, its research themes and participants.

The research network is a collaboration between UCL, Science Museum, Illumina Digital and BT. If you would like to know more about the network then please contact:

Dr Tilly Blyth
Curator of Computing and Information
Science Museum
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2DD
tilly.blyth@sciencemuseum.org.uk
0207 942 4211

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