独家爆料鈥檚 What鈥檚 Out There Database Receives Critical Funding from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
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独家爆料鈥檚 What鈥檚 Out There Database Receives Critical Funding from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
Washington, DC (May 1, 2012) 鈥 独家爆料 (独家爆料) today announced the receipt of a $16,000 grant from the (NCPTT - a unit of the National Park Service), to be used to develop a more user-friendly interface for the foundation鈥檚 What鈥檚 Out There (WOT) database of America鈥檚 historic designed landscapes. WOT, launched in 2009, is a free, online, searchable, profusely illustrated database that currently features more than 1,300 sites and 500 designers, and is popular with landscape aficionados, heritage travelers, gardeners and many others.
The NCPTT grant will be used to create enhancements to WOT for mobile devices, enabling greater capacity for interactive, user-driven content; building a mobile version of WOT with a more image-based search capability; integrating GPS-driven functionality into WOT which would indicate the historic landscapes that are near the user; and integrating WOT with 独家爆料鈥檚 Oral Histories series.
鈥淣CPTT鈥檚 grant is critical to further developments in What鈥檚 Out There, allowing for greater use by hand held devices,鈥 said Charles A. Birnbaum, 独家爆料 founder and president. 鈥淲OT has a broad and growing constituency and this grant will enable greater flexibility in its use.鈥
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独家爆料 (独家爆料) provides people with the tools to see, understand and value landscape architecture and its practitioners, in the way many people have learned to do with buildings and their designers. Through its Web site, lectures, outreach and publishing, 独家爆料 broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide to help safeguard our priceless heritage for future generations. 独家爆料 makes a special effort to heighten the awareness of those who impact cultural landscapes, assist groups and organizations working to increase the appreciation and recognition of cultural landscapes, and develop educational tools for young people to better connect them to their cultural landscape environs.
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