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Am Baile Highland Heritage Archive Web site launched
22 May 2003 The Highland Council in Inverness launch major Scottish heritage Web site designed by Interactive Bureau The official launch of Am Baile (The Highland Village) sees the culmination of almost 18 months of development work by Interactive Bureau with the Highland Council and other consortium members to make available thousands of previously inaccessible cultural heritage assets. Having seen the consortium through the process of establishing a brand and building an interim marketing Web site, Interactive Bureau helped and advised the team in planning the integration of digital assets into their Media Asset Management System. Items were very diverse in nature, they varied from photographs through maps, documents and video to specially commissioned interactive comics and games – all of which had to be integrated in a manner, which best extolled their value while ensuring accessibility. This major project, funded by the New Opportunities Fund, required strict adherence to technical and accessibility standards with regard to the technical build of the site. The site is fully bilingual a fact which meant that throughout the process innovative solutions were needed, which would overcome the restrictions of software only designed to work in one language at a time. The site is now the largest Scots Gaelic Web site in the world, and the depth of its resources, coupled with its ability to provide instant language switching makes it invaluable as a learning tool. Interactive Bureau provided the full design and technical implementation of the site including the provision of ongoing hosting management services as well as integrating with the Media Asset Management System. Development work continues integration of a database of over 32,000 Highland Sites and Monument Records, which is kust the next stage of the continual development of the site. Development work continues apaces, and as well as having integrated a database of over 32,000 Highland Sites and Monument Records, the team are planning a number of stages of continual development of the site. |
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