“Providing a Platform for Content Consumption Based on Geolocation” was exclusively created to meet the dissertation for the degree of Masters in Applied Digital Media at Griffith College Dublin. Reference in this dissertation to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by author or Griffith College Dublin.
"Providing a Platform for Content Consumption Based on Geolocation" is an information system that allows content moderation/distribution within the desired environment over the air based on proximity.
Information system allows moderators to create multimedia rich content and assign it to desired location (marker) on the map so the visitors with mobile devices with Internet access enabled (such as smartphone or tablet) can receive information about the particular subject based on the proximity to the subject (using GPS built into the smartphone).
Information system includes:
- CMS - Content Management System, an interface that is used by moderators to edit content), • API - Application Programming Interface, data manipulation and deliver,
- Web application - web site for the users that consume content using mobile devices.
Technologies and languages used on this project:
- PHP - for building API and snippet code within CMS,
- MySQL - database that stores data,
- HTML5, CSS3 - for making the web pages,
- Google Maps API v3 - for providing maps and geolocation information,
- Twitter Bootstrap 2.3.2 - for making CMS user interface,
- jQuery - Javascript library for HTML manipulation, event handling, animation and AJAX,
- Responsive Web method for building Web Application.
The idea of the project is to crete a platform that could be used by clients like museums, resorts, parks, or similar institution to quickly implement and offer their visitors unique multimedia experience while making sure that their visitors are getting genuine and authentic content that is easy to maintain.
For purpose of this dissertation, several locations are defined as a demonstration environment (Griffith College Campus, Smithfield Square, Phoenix Park, and city of Dublin).
URL: https://github.com/lukap2211/GCD-Masters/blob/master/documentation/GCD-MScADM-Presentation.pdf