PhilaPlace to AnyPlace: Building a Reusable Community Platform for Mapping and Sharing History

Matthew FisherPresident, Night Kitchen Interactive

April 7, 2011

PhilaPlace to AnyPlace: Building a Reusable Community Platform for Mapping and Sharing History

Authors:

Matthew FisherPresident, Night Kitchen Interactive

Kim SajetPresident and CEO, Historical Society of PennsylvaniaProducer of the PhilaPlace project

Minda BorunMuseum Solutions, Director of Research and Evaluation at The Franklin Institute Science Museum

Stacey MannLearning Strategy Director, Night Kitchen Interactive

PhilaPlace to AnyPlace

Why?

PhilaPlace to AnyPlace: Questions & Answers

Questions

Is PhilaPlace a rewarding visitor experience?

Would other organizations benefit from adopting the platform?

What would be the model(s) for implementing AnyPlace?

How should we extend AnyPlace for future adopters?

Answers

PhilaPlace: Local, place-based, interpretative website

The AnyPlace Platform: Place-based interpretative website platform for non-profit organizations anywhere

The Future of AnyPlace

PhilaPlace - Evaluation

First 200+ visitors who responded to the embedded survey

Overall reaction was “overwhelmingly positive”

Average ranking of 4.47 - 4.88 on a 5 point scale

Well-constructed site, interesting and easy to understand

Liked best: content, technology and design

Like to change: more content

Site Admin Selected Featured Stories

Google Maps Tiles

Pop ups animate map through Admin-selected highlighted places

Most RecentPlace showcased

Standard Google Maps controls

Access live demo at anyplace.whatscookin.com

Select a region or neighborhood to position map

3 different colored markers distinguish contributors

Filter map markers by topic or source

Take a custom tour

Access live demo at anyplace.whatscookin.com

View list of stories by Most Viewed, Place name, Author

or Title,Admin managed

dynamic list of topical

filters

Access live demo at anyplace.whatscookin.com

Admin-managed

dynamic filters of collections by Region, Topic, Media Type or

Source

Dynamically-generated

thumbnails for images, videos and audio files

Access live demo at anyplace.whatscookin.com

Page through media, view photos larger, watch videos

Save story to My Places

View place on map

Open location in Google maps

Page through stops in tour and related media

Links to relevant websites and references

Browse through tour stops and related media

Access live demo at anyplace.whatscookin.com

Send places to Google Maps

Create an account

Access live demo at anyplace.whatscookin.com

Visitors can submit their own stories,

images, media

AnyPlace Platform: Place-based interpretative website platform for non-profit organizations anywhere

Collective Access (www.collectiveaccess.org)– Open source, web-based software to catalog,

manage and publish museum and archival collections

– ~50 museums currently using the system

Google Maps API– Map functions

– Map tiles

Custom PHP ‘Middleware’– Website

individual model (self-hosted)

communal model (parent-hosted)

AnyPlace Mobile

AnyPlace Mobile

Thank you