A journalism student from Brazil has been in Monmouth to study the world's first Wikipedia town.

Claudia Silva is a PhD student of an international digital media course run by the New University of Lisbon in Portugal and the University of Texas in the US.

As part of her research into location-based information, Claudia came across Monmouthpedia – a project which aims to cover every aspect of life in Monmouth in Wikipedia articles.

The articles can be accessed either by visiting the Monmouthpedia website or by using a smartphone to scan one of the QR codes that are scattered all over the town, taking you directly to the corresponding article.

Claudia said it was interesting to compare the project to location-based social networks such as foursquare, which use GPS to pinpoint a user's location and give them information about their surroundings.

The QR codes also differ from 'push notifications', which are picked up automatically by phones without any interaction by the user.

"My research is about how mobile and context-aware technologies (eg smartphones) enable information and knowledge to be delivered locally and how it changes the way people consume information while on the go, in public spaces," said Claudia.

"Monmouth is a great case study for my research."