QRpedia
A QRpedia code which decodes as the URL http://en.qrwp.org/QRpedia, used widely as the logo
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The QRpedia website, showing a QR code, which decodes as the URL http://en.qrwp.org/QRpedia
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| Available in | Multilingual |
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| Website | qrpedia |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | None |
| Launched | 9 April 2011 |
| Current status | Online |
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MIT License |
QRpedia is a mobile Web based system which uses QR codes to deliver articles to users, in their preferred language. QR codes can easily be generated to link directly to any Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), but the QRpedia system adds further functionality. It is owned and operated by a subsidiary of (WMUK).
In this way, one QRcode can deliver the same article in many languages, even when the museum is unable to make its own translations. QRpedia also records usage statistics.
The project's source code is freely reusable under the MIT License.
Ceramic plaque with QRpedia code for Shire Hall, as part of the MonmouthpediA project.
Enamel sign with QRpedia code for Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Záběhlice, Prague, Czech Republic
A QRpedia plaque in Skopje Zoo, Macedonia, showing info on a hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) using a mixed approach
A QRpedia plaque in Satyagraha House, Johannesburg South Africa
Though created in the United Kingdom, QRpedia can be used in any location where the user's phone or tablet has a data signal (or remembers URLs until a signal is available) and is in use at venues including:
QRpedia also has uses outside of such institutions. For example, the Occupy movement uses it on campaign posters.
In January 2012, QRpedia was one of four projects (from 79 entrants) declared the most innovative mobile companies in the UK of 2011 by the Smart UK Project, and thus chosen to compete at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, on 29 February 2012. The criteria were "to be effective, easy to understand and with global potential and impact".
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