By Tom Vogt, the Columbian newspaper
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Brett Oppegaard, center, assistant professor at WSU
Vancouver and coordinator of the Fort Vancouver Mobile project, lays out his vision for a scene at Fort Vancouver. (Photo by Matthew Ginn, the Columbian) |
VANCOUVER, Wash. – A Vancouver-based collaboration is pioneering a new way to share history through the people who lived it via a smartphone application.
Any material “that we can present digitally can be packaged into this app and then put onto a phone,” said Brett Oppegaard, assistant professor at Washington State University Vancouver and project coordinator of the Fort Vancouver Mobile project. “Users can access it when they need it, when they want to learn about something in particular.”
Something like the community of Hawaiians at Fort Vancouver in the early to mid 1800s working for the Hudson’s Bay Company, perhaps.
Read the complete article from the Columbian newspaper online here.
See earlier articles and a video about Oppegaard’s work here and here.