QRpedia
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| languages | Multilingual |
| editorial staff | Terence Eden |
| Registration | No |
| On-line | April 9, 2011 (currently online) |
| http://qrpedia.org/ | |
QRpedia is a system on the mobile internet that uses QR codes to display Wikipedia articles to users in mobile view. QR codes are easy to generate to get a direct link to a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). Based on the language settings of the mobile device, the QRpedia system refers directly to the corresponding language version of the Wikipedia article.
QRpedia was designed and presented in April 2011 by Roger Bamkin, Chairman of Wikimedia UK . It is currently in use at institutions such as museums in the UK, USA and Spain. The source code of the project is freely reusable under the MIT license .
Emergence
QRpedia was designed by Roger Bamkin, Chairman of Wikimedia UK and mobile web consultant Terence Eden. The system was introduced on April 9, 2011 at the Derby Museum's Backstage Pass event . It is part of the GLAM / Derby collaboration between the Derby Museum and Art Gallery and Wikipedia, during which over 1200 Wikipedia articles were created in multiple languages. The project name is a suitcase word that combines the initials “QR” from “QR code” and “pedia” from “Wikipedia”.
Creation
To generate a QRpedia code, copy the complete address path of a Wikipedia article and paste it into the input field on the QRpedia website. The code is created immediately and displayed on the website. Now you can print it out, copy it or save it.
use
A QRpedia code is used like a QR code and can be used at any location where (mobile) data access is possible. Using a mobile device (e.g. mobile phone ) with a camera and installed QR code reading software, the code is scanned and the corresponding Wikipedia article is received in mobile format in the language set on the device.
In this way, a QR code provides a link to the same Wikipedia article in many languages, even if the exhibit in question is only described in one language on site.
If the article does not exist in the requested language, the user is offered a list of links to the article in other languages.
Technical implementation
If a QRpedia code is scanned, it is decoded into a URL , which is composed of the domain name “qrwp.org” and the title of the Wikipedia article in question as the path. With the help of this generated URL, a request for the Wikipedia article is sent to the QRpedia web server , and the language setting of the device is also transmitted.
The QRpedia server then uses the Wikipedia API to determine whether the requested Wikipedia article exists in the transmitted language. If this is the case, this version is returned in the mobile Wikipedia format. If not, the QRpedia server searches for the article title in other languages and returns the search result. QRpedia also records usage statistics.
commitment
QRpedia codes have been in use at the following institutions since September 2011:
- The Children's Museum of Indianapolis , USA
- Derby Museum and Art Gallery , United Kingdom
- Fundació Joan Miró , Spain
- The National Archives , United Kingdom
- Museum of Hamburg History , Hamburg
QRpedia is also used outside of museums and galleries to provide viewers with further information on objects and terms:
- On demo posters of the English-speaking Occupy movement
- On Cologne's Hohenzollern Bridge near the love locks
- In the Wikipedia city of MonmouthpediA
- On important buildings in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
- On the "time trail" near the royal palace Werla in Lower Saxony.
- At the information center of the Harzhorn event in Lower Saxony.
literature
- Markus Böhm: Augmented Reality. Wikipedia comes to the museum. In: Spiegel Online . October 7, 2011, accessed November 16, 2011 .
- Christian Reinboth: Wikipedia, the British Museum and the Rosette Stone. In: scienceblogs.de. Retrieved November 16, 2011 .
- René Hesse: Mobile knowledge in your language: Wikipedia introduces QRpedia. In: mobiflip.de. September 29, 2011, accessed November 16, 2011 .
- Terence Eden: Introducing QRpedia. In: Terence Eden Blog. April 3, 2011, accessed November 16, 2011 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Byrd Phillips, Lori: Going Multilingual with QRpedia . ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Marcus Institute for Digital Education in the Arts (June 15, 2011)
- ↑ Daily QRpedia Requests for "QRpedia". ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ We Don't Make Demands: Posters (English)
