Using webgis and cloud tools to promote cultural heritage dissemination: The historic up project

On the occasion of the First World War centennial, the GeoSNav Lab (Geodesy and Satellite Navigation Laboratory), Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Italy, in collaboration with Radici&Futuro Association, Trieste, Italy, carried out an educational Project named “Historic Up” involving a group of students from the “F. Petrarca” High School of Trieste, Italy. The main target of the project is to make available to students of Middle and High Schools a set of historical and cultural contents in a simple and immediate way, through the production of a virtual and interactive tour following the event that started the First World War: the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia in Sarajevo, in 28th June 1914. A set of Google Apps was used, including Google Earth, Maps, Tour Builder, Street View, Gmail, Drive, and Docs. The Authors instructed the students about software and team-working and supported them along the research. After the check, all the data have been uploaded on Tour Builder to create a sequence of historical checkpoints. Checkpoints has texts, pictures and videos that connect the tour-users to 1914. Moreover, GeoSNaV Lab produced a KML (Keyhole Markup Language) file representing the itinerary of the funeral procession and compared historical maps to actual status. This freely available online tour starts with the arrival of the royals, in 28th June 1914, and follows the couple along the events, from the assassination to the burial in Arstetten (Austria), including passages through Trieste (Italy), Lubjana (Slovenia), Graz and Wien (Austria).