Heritage Websites

[gothwalk]

I love my job.

On tomorrow's task list is "Research World Heritage Site promotion". Essentially, we're looking into how various World Heritage Sites (and less high-profile ones, too) are promoted online, with a particular eye to constructing websites (or other things - Second Life locations, podcasts, streaming video, whatever) that allow visitors a feeling that they've "been there".

So, I know a bunch of you have visited various places, and presumably looked at them on the web as well - point me at resources!

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[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Do you know about CIPHER?

http://cipherweb.open.ac.uk/

[ulaire-daidoji.livejournal.com]

pretty obvious one this : Google Earth

[meehaneo.livejournal.com]

We had visitors over from Australia a few weeks ago, so we did the tourist-y thing and visited Newgrange, Battle of the Boyne site, Tara and Clonmacnoise.

There are all here http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/MidlandsEastCoast/ on the Heritage Ireland website.

Some of them have their own websites such as http://www.battleoftheboyne.ie/

There is also An Taisce http://www.antaisce.ie/ which manages a separate set of resources (including Tailors Hall, its HQ which we visited a few weeks before)

Not all strictly World Heritage Sites except for Newgrange. But might be of some use!

[meehaneo.livejournal.com]

You could also look at this site
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/

Its mapping the tombs in the Valley of the Kings

[ragnvaeig.livejournal.com]

Yellowstone National Park and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have some nice educational resources, but they're run through the National Parks Service and so all have the same style sheets.

There was a kerfuffle over the craptacular un-finished-ness of the Old Barracks website, as smarriveurr may have indicated.

If I might plug the place where I've been working and give a critique, the Pennsylvania State Archives has been doing some digital imaging projects in order to make a lot of their microfilmed documents available on the web, especially since parking around centre city Harrisburg is a bear. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has mandated the use of an Aqualogic system that is almost entirely incompatible with the types of information that the Archives needs to present, as we can't upload thousands of .pdf files at once in any kind of efficient manner. (The Commonwealth never actually consulted the Archives about its metadata needs, which is crap because we're the biggest part of the Commonwealth web space.)