Gotland was really fun. The city of Visby is all it was supposed to be (you never know how much is just tourist hype) quaint small streets, city wall, cafés, restaurants and exotic shops. The seminar at the Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish National Heritage Board) went well and my project to help them move from static databases to a more interactive “web2.0” approach to users is on the way.

There are several interesting questions involved when a government body wants to open up it’s databases and let the users in. The idea is the rich collections of data this government body maintains will be made available. Thats the easy part – but not too easy.

The next stage is to allow users to add, edit, comment, tag and connect data. In addition to this this government body wants to allow the users to communicate with each other via the governments infrastructure. They are brave and exciting – not your typical image of a heritage board.

After the seminar today I roamed the street taking pictures until it was time to fly to Stockholm and wait for the train to Göteborg.