PhoneBooth

Duration

November 2011 – July 2012

Summary

PhoneBooth repurposed the Charles Booth Maps, Descriptive of London Poverty and selected police notebooks, which record eye-witness descriptions of London street-by-street, for delivery to mobile devices. The project enhanced the then current online delivery by enabling content to be delivered directly to the location to which it refers. Mobilisation enhanced the utility of the digital content for the audience of the online archive and its use was be piloted in a teaching course which already made use of the Booth maps and notebooks. The mobilisation of Library content served as a model and technical basis for the further development of digital library services.

Project Deliverables

(available from the project website)

• A report on user requirements; revised course syllabus incorporating the use of mobile content delivery; functional requirements
• Booth maps and notebooks in georeferenced preservation and delivery formats; knowledge transfer to LSE
• Fedora/Hydra content models for geodata; ingest of Booth content into LSE Digital Library; API for spatial query of Booth content
• Prototype web application for the mobile delivery of Booth content; knowledge transfer to LSE
• Use of the prototype in the London's Geographies course 2011/12; report on findings: pedagogical impact; refinements to the course syllabus for 2012/13
• Case study on the development of mobile content and its impact on teaching

Links

Phonebooth blog

EDINA Contacts

James Reid

Partnerships

Digital Library, London School of Economics

Funders

JISC