Archaeological interpretation by using mobile devices. Problems and tendencies in preparing the museography documentation

Irina GREVTSOVA
(Universidad de Barcelona, Spain)

Keywords: heritage interpretation, urban archaeology, mobile devices, museography documentation

Abstract:
At present, we are witnessing the rapid spread of new information technologies and their overall impact on the forms of presentation and interpretation of cultural heritage. More and more this process is penetrating deeper in the development and preparation of cultural projects, affecting from the sketch of the conceptual idea to the final presentation of the cultural contents to the user. In this sense, preparing the documentation is one of the main subjects, in which the new technologies have its particular influence.
Appeared in recent years, intuitive and attractive mobile devices have facilitated the interaction between the user and the cultural heritage and so they have rapidly found their application in the interpretation of cultural heritage. Thanks to its possibilities of free creating, editing and managing of interactive contents, mobile devices establish new standards of operation and interaction with the information about cultural monuments that gradually lead to changes in the process of creating and preparing interpretative projects.
This article approaches the basic problems in the preparation of the documentation for interpretation of the archaeological heritage with mobile devices.  First, the general aspects of preparing documents for interpretative projecting are introduced. Afterwards, the document with the proposal of use of mobile devices in the Archaeological Park of the Castle of Calafell (Catalonia, Spain) is presented. It was developed by the scientific group of the University of Barcelona – DIDPATRI. The article reviews and analyzes in detail the system of filtering information of “classical” museography projects and its adaptation and transformation for the characteristics of mobile devices. Finally, the article ends with the conclusions about the main features of the documentation designed for the use of mobile devices and emphasizes its distinctive characteristics.