Explore North Devon launches its Project Showcase

Website fully functioning

By Tim Wormleighton, North Devon Record Office

Explore North Devon has now reached the conclusion of the Archives 4 All phase of the project and we are pleased to report that we have a fully functioning website at www.explorenorthdevon.org capable of receiving uploads of digital images, sound files and moving images from our participating communities, which can be manipulated to create individual stories or map-based heritage trails using the software we have developed.

Our communities have been working hard to transfer their data to the project website and we now have an ever increasing amount of fascinating images and information on a wide range of subjects on view. We are presenting a selection of this work in our Projects Showcase exhibition in various locations during 2008. See the project website for details.

We are very pleased to report that additional funding for a new phase of the Explore North Devon project has been awarded by Devon County Council as part of its culture development programme for 2008/09. This will enable us to extend our community archives work to many more parishes in the northern Devon area, as well as developing our existing projects further.