If you haven't done so then tout this to the Premier League football clubs and fanzines....
On 18 Sep 2014, at 09:35, Colin Baird wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We've just launched a new site: www.i-was-there.org which is geared to collecting people's memories. It's built on elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails, with geo from google maps and is free to use.
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> There's only a smattering of content in there - some of our own family memories. However the site itself is fully built to industry standards. We're undecided which direction to go with it next. We'd be interested in integrating / repurposing with any similar projects or repositories of memory data. I tried to contact the BBC about the People's War archive http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/about/ but was unsuccessful. That however is the sort of content that I think our search UI would work well on.
>
> If anybody is looking at doing a similar type of site and likes our approach or wants to talk about the build then drop me an email: [log in to unmask] - likewise if there are any lonely datasets out there looking for a date with a search UI. Feel free to register and have a play with the features too - there's a lot there inspired by following various threads on this list!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Colin Baird - Waypost Software
>
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