Visualizing the Transformation of Downtown Cleveland
Center for Public History + Digital Humanities (CPHDH)
at Cleveland State University

Smart City Project Overview

Curatescape is a web and mobile app framework for publishing location-based content using the Omeka content management system.

Curatescape is an affordable and user-friendly solution that allows small to mid-sized cultural organizations, preservation groups, or educational institutions an opportunity to reclaim their interpretive voice and reconnect to their communities and audiences. Curatescape development was seeded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Cleveland State University Office of Research.

Presently, over thirty universities, heritage preservation organizations, historical societies, and museums have adopted Curatescape. For a full list of projects, click here.

Organization's mission and/or purpose

The Center for Public History + Digital Humanities (CPHDH) at Cleveland State University Department of History develops state-of-the-art public humanities projects and resources rooted in scholarly disciplines in concert with university and K-12 educators and students, libraries, museums and cultural institutions, and neighborhood organizations.

Project Links

• Center for Public History + Digital Humanities, Cleveland State University
• Curatescape

IMPACT STATEMENT

Curatescape supports humanities organizations and scholars in creating and sharing location-based interpretive content that engages the broad public, invites the community into conversations about the importance of place, and supports community development, urban revitalization, and public education.

Project point

J. Mark Souther, Ph.D.
[email protected]