The 'stories' varied a lot: remembrances triggered by objects, memories of specific objects, stories inspired by objects...when I was invited to contribute as part of the 1st phase, the brief was to tell a story that made a personal connection with an object. It was about how people connect with objects and 'own' them.
It is dispiriting and frustrating to those of us who work on such projects to see them vanish within such a short time. It is such a waste of our time, skills and effort as well as of public money. Why can't we build upon such things? 'Every Object...' had the basis of a virtual people's museum, bringing together a wonderful selection of things from all over the country and alternative interpretations/associations that really demonstrated different ways of looking at and appreciating our cultural inheritance.
Janet E Davis
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> The British Library's Web Archive project seems to have
> archived two
> snapshots of the site here:
> http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/129046.
>
>
> It seems to work pretty well, though of course the social
> features don't
> work any more.
>
> This is my favourite bit of contributed content so far:
> http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20060702233331/http://www.everyobject.net/storya8cf.html
>
>
> I've not done a comprehensive study of this archived
> snapshot (which is
> dated to 2nd July 2006), but it appears from a quick review
> that a lot of
> the stories contributed are of a fictional/creative writing
> bent, rather
> than a more factual 'remembrance' style. I wonder
> if that was intended, or
> an unexpected consequence of using the word 'story'
> in the site's name.
>
> This is a lovely story by a V&A curator of their first
> acquisition (in
> 1984):
> http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20060702233331/http://www.everyobject.net/storye20e.html
>
> Frankie
>
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