Hi, I've incorporated the use of iNaturalist (via creating projects with the orientation of areas) in specific areas that combine outstanding natural and cultural beauty. Specifically, I developed two different tours in different locales, that include the generation of narratives (based on local legends, historic and mythoplastic, that also connect the story with certain museum artifacts) in the context of treasure hunt through geocaching. Each tour consists of a number of stations where each geocache is hidden containing puzzles and information that once solved lead the participant to a new station until they get to the final resolution of the mystery. During their journey along the different stations, they read the narratives, and they also record biodiversity via iNaturalist and at some point they conduct river measurements with the aid of certain organology and record their results, regarding physicochemical parameters and also qualitative elements of the river, etc. Any ideas on how could I also incorporate citizen science also for cultural heritage as well? I was thinking as a next step of my research to expand, through organizing workshops introducing my elements for developing my two tours, and then having small teams (possibly an educator, museum personel, personel of centres of environmental education, local people), generating their own material about their own region. Further, if any relevant literature cross your mind, please send me, thank you.
Hi Michail
examples of relevant citizen science that I am aware of include getting people to take photos and submit them to a database to aid with monitoring the condition of cultural heritage sites and impacts on the sites, for example from things like tourism or climate change. That works for tangible heritage sites, but if you are talking about intangible cultural heritage, for example Dreamtime stories, folklore and songs, then I think you would need to start with the relevant local communities and find out what they would want.
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Jens Kleb Sherrie-Lee Evans I would like to thank you both for your answers. In regards to local companies, the last year I ve been thinking to engage local shop owners and companies by incorporating traditional products and even packaging in the treasure hunt. Collecting photos of the 2-3 centuries old stone bridges by the participants would be a great idea. What concerns me is the volume of data, uploading them on a page via a social utility might effectively work. This may work with stories as well, I will be having teams of 4-5 in each of the 4 regions (villages) to generate their own narratives through local legends, history and even mythoplastic stories. However collecting stories together with photos through a page sounds a great idea to start with. I should be able to come up with a research question, thank you!
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