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16 Sept 2011

What was there?

Here's an interesting project that extends the Museum of London Street Museum application to map historical photographs through crowd sourcing. I suppose ideally it would balance individual and institutional data, but open source projects can be limited by copyright restrictions and the occasional insular archive. Hopefully it will become a really useful resource.

http://whatwasthere.com/

There's also a free app for iDevices if you're that way inclined:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whatwasthere/id421576457?mt=8&ls=1

1 comment:

  1. Interesting Rebecca...and yet another example of the Digging into Data' kind of initiatives...democratisation of perspectives....or the 'excess of history' that Nietzsche talked about in the 19th century...?...
    Mark

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