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Promoting Florida History

Project PastCast

With grant funding from the Florida Humanities Council and in cooperation with the University of West Florida and Florida Atlantic University, the USF Libraries Florida Studies Center is engaged in a project to promote Florida history by creating audio and audio-visual historical podcasts, or “pastcasts,” of 50 Florida towns. To be eligible for inclusion, a town must have a core of standing structures of historical significance and be easily accessible from one of the state’s four Interstate highways: I-10, I-75, I-95, or I-4.

The podcasts that are produced as part of this project will constitute an electronic library of scholar-certified, historical content that is accessible to the general public. The website developed and implemented as part of this project will act as a repository for the podcasts, allowing users to consume them as either streaming media or downloaded files. These files would be in the form of full motion and sound digital video clips and lightweight audio-only sound clips. Users with web-enabled mobile devices, such as notebook computers, hand-held personal digital assistants (PDA), or smart phones running the Windows Mobile operating system would be able to interact in real time with the website to view or listen to these media files as they travel the state of Florida. Travelers without mobile web access would be able to download the files in advance and play them back through their laptops, PDAs, iPods, mp3 players, or even as a disk on a portable DVD player. Each file would contain the appropriate metadata to enable the user’s device to present the user with information about the associated location and topic of each file so that they are easily retrievable as the user travels.

In the future, the podcasts created by this project will become part of a library of historical content affixed with global coordinates and available to GPS service providers. The 50 audio and audio-visual podcasts created with this FHC grant will remain linked to the FHC website and available to the general public at no cost.

PastCast Grant Narrative
In January 2007, the University of West Florida, Florida Atlantic University, and USF Libraries Florida Studies Center received the following grant from the Florida Humanties Council.
 
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