The best use of Tasmanian Heritage Data
How can we use data to showcase Tasmania’s history, people and stories?
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Tassie Hack
https://bestasmania.tech/
https://github.com/fat-potato/Local-Expert
The inspiration
- The platform is created with a view to promote heritages in the areas using the existing data on locations, history, images and stories.
- To make a product that is useful for the local communities and anyone visiting the areas.
- To boost tourism in the area after the pandemic.
- The first version will focus on tourism and related services but the model can expand to include even more services in future versions.
The solution
LocalExpert is a solution for
- Helping tourists understand the areas they are visiting.
- Helping passionate locals to promote their regions and earn work opportunities
- Connecting tourists with services in the area.
It's like Uber for tourists and local services!
Experts:
- Register to our system to become a local expert
- Submit their experiences, skills, availabilities and services to the system for processing
- Publish their profiles for reviews and feedbacks from tourists
Tourists:
- Search for services and experts in the area where they want to visits
- Give reviews and feedbacks to experts after their trip ends
- Find other people with similar interest to join
LocalExpert:
- Automatically suggest experts for a tourists based on experts' experiences, skills and feedbacks received
- Provide stories, audios, films, images related to the area using archive data
- Suggest other people with similar interest for you to make a group and travel together
- Manage transactions and interactions between tourists and experts
By using LocalExpert, tourists can simply state their destinations and we will deliver the best local experts and services for them. The research before travelling to a destinations is now much simplier.
On the other hands, the local people will have opportunities to introduce to the world their area and offering their services.
Local Expert uses a number of open source projects to work properly:
And of course Local Expert itself is open source with a public repository on GitHub.
MIT
Free Software, Hell Yeah!
There are three datasets used
Recreational Tracks and Trails - Open Data
Tasmanian archives + heritage
Local Overlays - Heritage Areas 2015
The Local Overlays - Heritage Areas 2015 will be used for locating where the heritages are in each area.
After that, each heritages will be matched with the images, stories, audio, films from the Tasmanian archives + heritage.
Finally, The Recreational Tracks and Trails are also matched with each heritage to create a fully comprehensive set of data.
When the users search for a location, the system now can suggest all data related to the location including heritages, images, stories, audio, films and Recreational Tracks and Trails.
Description of Use Locating trails and tracks to suggest to user
Description of Use For locating heritages, architectures, ports, shoping and matching images, history, stories to them
Description of Use To know where the heritages are
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