Digital maps for heritage, cultural and community projects – where the human story is at the heart of your content.
Humap is for projects which have community and heritage at their heart. You might have collected stories of a place, which you’d like to present digitally. Maybe you want people to record their own stories, through our easy to use online tools. Or you’ve got a more formally curated set of geographical content which you want to give to a wider audience.
What can Humap do?
We've built a digital platform which gathers personal stories, data, and interesting content from visitors. Presented alongside more formally curated content, Humap can tell a compelling story about places, people and artefacts. This is a digital map which is accessible and easy to use for everyone.
- Explore museum & heritage collections in new ways
- Crowd-source stories and information beyond text
- Present content as oral histories, videos, text, and images
- Engage your community in heritage activities
- Put people at the centre of your digital project
- Ensure a legacy for your project
Who's involved?
Our work with partners at the Institute of Historical Research, Marshall University, the London School of Economics, and more, has shown us that there’s nowhere better than Humap to tell your story.
Features: the nuts and bolts
- Engage your audience in digital co-curation activities like geo-referencing and tagging
- Crowd-source new content from participants, featuring audio, video, images, text and more
- Display and explore curated and crowdsourced content on the same map
- Customise the functions to suit the specific needs of your project
- Build a custom brand and design for your project
- Host Humap on your own domain, or embed it into your existing website
- Ensure the legacy of your project after funding ends
- Export raw data for academic study and archiving
- Integrate with collections management systems and third-party tools
- Open-source code means you can extend the platform in the future