Manassas Battlefield National Park, Virginia, USA
Manassas National Battlefield Park, Virginia, USA

Create Content

We can create affordable content tailored to your specific interpretation needs, scaled to your budget.

Overview

Running Reality has content all across time and all across the world. Still, it may not yet have a lot of detail at your exact location. Help us fill in the details.

Sponsorship

Sponsor content creation to cover the costs of the historical research and digital data. All Running Reality history data is available to our visitors, so your site benefits from content created by others and they benefit from yours. All factoids that drive the world history model are open, as are their citations.

We have help creating content from either local history students or global students and researchers. We have people with both the research skills and the Geographic Information System (GIS) skills. We would love to work with your own team, partnering on the research or even on a grant.

Contact us to get a quote on what resources it might take for your location. Some of the factors are:

Because there is one history engine and it is always adding data, you can request new details at any time and add incrementally. You can just add roads and two buildings today and then add ten interactive people six months from now if your visitors would like it.

Generating Content

How do we build the content? We have our custom digital history editor desktop app, which lets us add content quickly and affordably. Unlike building a custom app just for your site (and incurring all the development, licensing, and security costs), we just need to create and position the people, buildings, roads, etc. The desktop app and website already handle the rest.

Editing history

With a world history project, our scope is vast. We've build specialized tools to take research papers, text, historic photos, maps, and articles and turn them into structured data for our engine. As these tools get better, costs continue to fall. For example, recent advances in photogrammetry (point clouds, Gaussian splatting, voxel-augmented edge detection) have enabled us to generate a 3D model of a building in minutes from a single historical photo.

Partnerships

Historic sites can be regional. A historic battlefield isn't just the protected lands of the national park. The soldiers marched along the roads, right past where today's libraries and coffee shops are. They encamped in town, setting up tents on that nice flat land that is now a grocery store. If you can have low-cost digital interpretation to augment the expensive physical interpretation, more partners can participate and more stories and more diverse stories can be told.

We will work with you to see of other local sites or businesses might want to partner on creating the digital content. This helps the coffee shop better connect with the tourists who might be heading out to the main site after they plan their day at your table. This helps the students on a field trip connect what they see at the site back to the experience they can have in the classroom, including collecting "artifacts" such as letters that their teachers can incorporate into their assessments. The main site benefits because they wish to be able to expand their interpretation and also better integrate it with their visitors and local businesses.

We are actively pursuing grant opportunities for regional interpretation. Partner with us on a grant application along with universities, sites, local governments, and businesses. A grant with partnerships shows strong alignment with the goals of many grant programs, because it can maximize limited resources helping all our visitors learn more about history.

Learn about grant partnerships

Next Steps

If you would like to learn more about sponsoring additional detailed content at your site, please email us. We would love to work with you to bring your history to life:

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