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This was the sign that greeted me as I made my way into The Camden Head for the first Museums Showoff…
Now, I’ve no idea why I was the headliner – but I certainly wasn’t going to complain!
Museums Showoff is a spin-off from the popular Science Showoff. The idea is that [...]
An email from FourSquare this morning reminded me what I was doing a year ago today.
I spent the morning at The British Museum doing the first public experiments with QRpedia.
This is a video of the historic occaision.
So, here’s a quick run down of what this volunteer-lead project has acheived [...]
We’re incredibly excited to announce that QRpedia has made the shortlist for the Smart UK Project!
We are searching for the UK’s Most Innovative Mobile Companies. Our aim is to celebrate UK innovation and showcase the best examples of UK mobile innovation.
We’ll be presenting at the competition oin January – [...]
I was tweeted an interesting link the other day – We Don’t Make Demands. They have a set of posters for the “Occupy Movement” which incorporate QRpedia codes.
These posters were designed by participants at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City. They are in the public domain. You are welcome [...]
This blog post is designed to foster a technical and logistical discussion. In much the same way as the earlier QRpedia language discussion did.
One of the most requested features in QRpedia is to have custom URLs.
For example, the British Museum may want a URL of “bm.qrwp.org”. This has two main advantages.
Better [...]
As you may know, the Miro Exhibit is fully equipped with Catalan compatible QRpedia codes.
Here’s a great video showing off the exhibit:
You can jump straight to the two-minute mark if you’re just interested in the QR action.
Lori Philips has been interviewed by the Indianapolis Woman Magazine.
A great article discussing the role of the Wikipedian in residence and how QRpedia codes have taken off there.
Lori Philips has been interviewed by the Indianapolis Woman Magazine. A great article [...]
Beautiful video about the work Derby Museum has been doing with Wikipedia & QRpedia.
Derby Museum using multilingual QR codes from Andrew James Sykes on Vimeo.
In 2011 Wikipedians wrote and translated 1200 new articles to allow the museums objects to read in over a dozen languages using QRpedia codes.
The “Wiki Loves Monuments” project in Russia has been featured on Russian TV. Check out the QRpedia codes!
You can see all the articles (and their QRpedia codes) – there is also a list of articles which need translating.
QRpedia’s Name
There is some confusion about QRpedia’s name.
[...]
The Joan Miró exhibition in has just gone live with QRpedia codes!
This project has been the brain-child of Àlex Hinojo – the Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Museu Picasso. He first mentioned it to us in May and we’ve worked hard to deal with the challenges of the Catalan language.
Congrats [...]
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