Travellers to Wales

前往威尔士的旅客

• 批准号: AH/P014046/1
• 负责人: Carol Tully
• 金额: $ 10.03万
• 依托单位: Bangor University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP014046%2F1
• 关键词: Travellers; Wales

This project will build on the work undertaken from 2013 to 2017 on the European Travellers to Wales 1750-2010 project, a collaboration between researchers in Modern Langages based at Bangor University, Swansea University and the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies and their partners at the National Library of Wales and the within the museum sector in Wales. Broadly speaking, the original project set out to explore the responses in travel writing of European travellers coming to Wales over a period of nearly three centuries. The research uncovered travellers' responses to Wales as a peripheral, at times unexpected nation with a culture often little known in the European context. Underpinning the project was the creation of a searchable open access database of accounts of travel (etw.bangor.ac.uk/accounts-of-travel) which now contains over 400 entries. This follow-on project aims to exploit the material held in this database by working with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Mouments of Wales and Visit Wales to help to promote Wales, its history, cultural heritage and landscape more widely to national and international audiences by developing an interactive mobile-friendly website that allows users (primarily but not exclusively from German and French-speaking Europe) to create themed travel routes through Wales and to access historical, site-specific material that interprets individual locations from the perspective of travellers through time (in particular the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries). The interactive website will make this newly recovered historical material available to new, general audiences in a way which will have a positive impact on the tourist activity in Wales, in so doing contributing to one of the most important elements of the Welsh economy and targeting one of the key markets identified by Visit Wales. The development of this new website will exploit the unexpected quality and quantity of previously unknown or forgotten material dating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which has been uncovered during the main research undertaken for the European Travellers to Wales project and which is now surfaced in the database. The material in question covers a period of great change in the landscape, culture and heritage of Wales and modern-day visitors will be able to 'experience' those changes through the eyes of their travelling predecessors, thus opening up a unique view of Wales to a new generation of travellers from Europe, but also casting a new light on the perception of Wales over time for visitors from the United Kingdom and other parts of the world. This will be made possible through the collation of exisiting digital materials and the development, using the expertise of the Royal Commission team, of new digital resources consisting of historical visual material, digital visualisation and reconstructions, panotours of gigapixel photography and Virtual Reality experiences. Downloadable materials will also be made available. The website will be hosted by Bangor University and promoted globally via the various platforms operated by Visit Wales.

该项目将建立在2013年至2017年进行的工作上，欧洲旅行者到威尔士1750-2010项目，班戈尔大学，斯旺西大学和威尔士大学高级威尔士和凯尔特研究中心的现代语言研究人员之间的合作，以及他们在威尔士国家图书馆和威尔士博物馆部门内的合作伙伴。从广义上讲，最初的项目开始探索近三个世纪以来欧洲旅行者来到威尔士的旅行写作反应。这项研究揭示了旅行者对威尔士的反应，威尔士是一个边缘国家，有时是一个意想不到的国家，其文化在欧洲背景下往往鲜为人知。该项目的基础是建立了一个可搜索的开放式旅行账户数据库（etw.bangor.ac.uk/accounts-of-travel），目前有400多个条目。这一后续项目旨在利用该数据库中的材料，与威尔士古代和历史遗迹皇家委员会和访问威尔士合作，帮助宣传威尔士及其历史，通过开发一个便于移动设备使用的互动网站，（主要但不完全来自德语和法语欧洲），以创建穿越威尔士的主题旅游路线，并访问历史，特定地点的材料，从旅行者的角度解释各个地点的时间（特别是十八和十九世纪）。互动网站将使这一新恢复的历史材料提供给新的，一般观众的方式，这将对威尔士的旅游活动产生积极影响，这样做有助于威尔士经济的最重要的因素之一，并针对访问威尔士确定的主要市场之一。这个新网站的开发将利用18世纪和19世纪以前未知或被遗忘的材料的意外质量和数量，这些材料是在为欧洲威尔士旅行者项目进行的主要研究期间发现的，现在已经出现在数据库中。有关材料涵盖了威尔士景观，文化和遗产的巨大变化时期，现代游客将能够通过他们的旅行前辈的眼睛“体验”这些变化，从而为来自欧洲的新一代旅行者打开威尔士的独特视角，也为来自英国和世界其他地区的游客提供了一个新的视角，让他们了解威尔士的历史。这将通过整理收集的数字材料和利用皇家委员会团队的专业知识开发新的数字资源来实现，这些资源包括历史视觉材料、数字可视化和重建、千兆像素摄影全景图和虚拟现实体验。还将提供下载材料。该网站将由班戈尔大学主办，并通过威尔士旅游局运营的各种平台在全球推广。