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Taggin’
Tallinn!
Blending virtual and physical presence in the
city
Project nature
Laboratory of:• locative media• public contributions• social software• new mobile technologies• mobile interfacing
Project umbrella
A core concept and technology from which emerge new:
• content concepts• student projects• open source culture• technological extensionsNewer ready!
Spraying graffiti not encouraged
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• GSM• GPS• map-click
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Mauri was here!
59°43.7’N 24°74.3’
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Content community
• Community of peers• Has a moderator• Own rules of e.g. membership, acceptance, priorization and evaluation -> game!
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Tags, blogs and communities
Content community & ”game” = ontological dimension of the city
Tag = X was here...•Individual presence•Coordinates•Time•Content link•Community
Blog = individual track
Hybrid coordinate system of TallinnBlend:• Geographical coordinates tracked by GSM, GPS, or manually associated with
• Content collection coordinates = Experiential coordionates
Community and social software New tag contents:• peer-evaluated• moderated• accepted/rejected
• competed• elaborated jointly
Immediate p2p communication facilitated
Technical background: Soft ontology• Numerical and spatial conceptualization
• Dynamically adaptive dimensionality
• Allows degrees of relevance• Allows multiple-perspectives to data
Dealing with complexity• Soft ontology allows individual perspectives and foci = filtered view
• Automated statistical means of integrating similar collections
• Built-in competitive mechanisms (within community, between communities)
Goals
• Promoting Tallinn• Promoting mobile & locative technologies and services
• Stimulate open source community & innovation
• Generate study projects• New revenue logics• Indirect boposts to economy
Role of the city?
• Facilitate citizen’s and visitors own contributions
• Provide historical backgrounds, facts etc., embedded in TT as content collections
• Promote the city using TT
Core challenges
Initial challenges• Location technologies• Legal solutions• Soft ontology management• Web & SMS interfaces• Social software• Server & Database solutions
Funding sources
• Virtual Tallinn (Tallinn Cultural Capital 2011)
• Operators (-> more traffic)• Mobile manufacturers (more interest towards localization and navigation)
• Location-based database industry
Related projects
• Positium Tallinn project• Katumuisti (Street memory)• Yellow Arrow• Visby Under• Merkitys-Meaning
• many more...
Example concepts
The project supports a range of location-based concepts
Brainstorming wiki