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10.12775/akz.2018.004

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Modern information and communication technologies have contributed to the emergence of digital humanities, including digital history and ‘digital history’ and multimedia and interactive ‘digital historical representations’; in turn, the mobile device and internet revolution introduced new perspectives for establishing relationships and sharing knowledge and information. At the same time, the need for effective management and long-term care of digital content and data for research purposes is becoming increasingly important. The article’s intention is to highlight the potential offered by the open source Curatescape software for creating historical digital representations and “mobile interpretation projects”. The text builds on the Cleveland Historical project, which is an excellent example of combining digital humanities with history in public spaces. The article also intends to signal the opportunities that digital humanities offer to cultural heritage institutions, regional organisations and educational institutions. In order to achieve the objective, a literature review method and a case study were used. The article also presents the results of an analysis of the information architecture and an overview of the functionality of the Curatescape package, which is a set of plug-ins and a graphical motif for the Omeka open system. The text highlights the need for researchers and heritage staff, members of local communities, teachers and passionates to work together to create high-quality historical content based on geolocation. Research has shown that Curatescape-based projects can contribute to supporting historical education, social memory, audience activation, cultural tourism development and digital curatorship. Modern information and communication technologies contributed to the emergence of digital humanities, including digital history and ‘digital historiography’, as well as multimedia and interactive ‘historical digital representations’. Additionally, the revolution of mobile Internet and devices introduced new perspectives in the area of establishing relationships and sharing knowledge and information. Simultaneously, the need of efficient management and long-term curation of digital content and data for research purposes having more and more significant. The intention of the article is to indicate the potential offered by the open-source software Curatescape in the context of creating historical digital representations and ‘mobile interpretation projects’. The text bases on the Cleveland Historical project, which is a great example of merging digital humanities and public history. The article also aims at signalling opportunities offered by digital humanities to cultural heritage institutions, regional organisations, and educational institutions. This objective was acquired by implementing methods of literature review and case study. The article also presents output of analysis of information architecture and overview of function of the Curatescape suite, which is a set of plug-ins and a Graphic theme for the open system Omeka. This text shows the need of cooperation between researchers and employees of heritage institutions, members of local communities, teachers, and hobbyists, in order to create high quality historical content based on geolocation. The research shows, which projects based on the Curatescape may contribute to supporting historical education, creating social memory, activisation of the publicity, development of cultural tourism, and implementing digital curation

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