This document discusses a project called Tales of Things which aims to archive cultural heritage by allowing memories and media to be attached to physical objects. It explores how this could benefit museums, galleries and communities by creating two-way learning opportunities. The project is supported by EPSRC and offers open APIs and custom apps to easily attach multimedia memories to objects anywhere, with geographic tagging.

1. tales of things:
archiving and viewing
the cultural heritage of
everything
andrew hudson-smith
ralph barthel
ben blundell
martin de-jode
Seeing is Believing: New Technologies for
Cultural Heritage : June 9th 2010

4. what if memories
could be ‘added’ to
objects?

11. QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.

12. QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
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decompressor
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decompressor
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18. Outreach:
Alzheimers Group’s;
Sporting Events;
Museums;
British Library;
Heritage;
Galleries;
The ‘Crowd’...

19. TOTeM - Featured Artist @ FutureEverything

21. QuickTime™ and a
H.264 decompressor
are needed to see this picture.

22. Inordinate Fondness
Hamer Dodds and Richard
Bracken’s exhibition opens today (7
June until 25 June 2010) at Wolfson
College, Univeristy of Oxford.
Dodds will be linking to the
talesofthings website using QR
codes alongside some of his
pieces, will post images here as Text
they come in.

26. QRCode/RFID Art?

27. Edinburgh Film Festival QRCode Movie

28. Participation in Heritage
Hands on;
Two-Way;
Learning Opportunities;
Social/Community Memory;
Any Size (50Ft Outside);
Thought Provoking...

30. First Paper:
M/C Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2010) - 'cohesion'
Tagging is Connecting: Shared Object Memories as
Channels for Sociocultural Cohesion
Kerstin Leder, Angelina Karpovich, Maria Burke, Chris Speed, Andrew Hudson-
Smith, Simone O'Callaghan, Morna Simpson, Ralph Barthel, Ben Blundell, Martin
De Jode, Clare Lee, Arthi Manohar, Duncan Shingleton, Jane Macdonald

33. Free of Charge
Supported by the EPSRC
Open API
Custom iPhone Apps
AudioBoo Integration
Geographic Tagging
Quick and Easy
Sustainable

35. talesofthings.com:
any objects, any media,
anywhere - its a
memory thing.
andrew hudson-smith - asmith@geog.ucl.ac.uk
Seeing is Believing: New Technologies for
Cultural Heritage : June 9th 2010