OharEleanitzak, an app to promote language diversity in museums

The OharEleanitzak app automatically provides the user with museum content and offers the possibility of receiving the text and audio material over a mobile device in the language selected by the user. How? Through QR codes distributed all over the museum, users can receive the information corresponding to each panel and the mobile phone is turned into a personalised audio guide.

The project, which is designed to promote language diversity and coexistence between languages, emerged in the UPV/EHU's Computing Faculty and has been developed within the Hirikia quay of the San Sebastian European Capital of Culture 2016. The mission of this quay is to set up platforms and open-code tools to give citizens greater freedom in the digital sphere and to consolidate the new technologies in society.

OharEleanitzak has already been tested at the Albaola Basque Maritime Factory, where it has been functioning for several months. Nevertheless, the app is ready for use in any other space and this is its aim: to spread its use as much as possible and to adapt the general application to the content of each place as well as to its particular needs. The app has been presented recently to various tourism organisations in the city and the area for the purpose of promoting its use.

Collaboration agreement between the UPV/EHU's Faculty of Computing and the DSS2016EU
OharEleanitzak is the first visible result of the collaboration between the UPV/EHU's Faculty of Computing and San Sebastian 2016, which have recently signed an agreement to develop the Hirikia quay together.

Through the signing of this agreement the university has committed itself to making available to the Hirikia quay its power to generate knowledge and to guaranteeing the participation of groups of researchers in the projects developed within the framework of it. In return, the 2016 San Sebastian Foundation will be providing the opportunity to introduce digital knowledge into the cultural context.