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Building Community Memory through On-line Technology

This proposal explores the use of online technology to build community memory by preserving cultural identity, documenting local history, promoting tourism, and preserving shared heritage. The goal is to develop easily transferable tools and processes for gathering, indexing, and archiving multimedia assets. Progress to date includes digitizing thousands of images, creating a database for associated data, and implementing a core system with preliminary feedback from the community.

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Building Community Memory through On-line Technology

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  1. Building Community Memory through On-line Technology Ted Leath March 2000

  2. Communities Examining: • Preserving cultural identity • Documenting local history • Promoting tourism • Shared heritage

  3. Current Tools • Official records • Customs • Tradition • Stories (both oral and written) • Language • Myth

  4. Proposal Tools, implementation of these tools, processes and the documentation of processes involved in building community memory through on-line technology should be explored. In as much as is possible, these concepts, tools and processes should be easily transferable and applicable across different communities. It is hoped that a cohesive process and associated tools for gathering, indexing and archiving multimedia assets for community memory will emerge.

  5. Work to Date (1) Approximately 3,700 images of Derry and the northwest have been digitised. Each image exists in 3 different formats – a high resolution image (kept off-line on CD) a low resolution image for web display and a thumbnail image.

  6. Work to Date (2) An SQL database has been created for data associated with each image. Tools for the maintenance of this database have been installed and configured. The PHP3 scripting language has been installed and configured to allow dynamic database access and search facilities.

  7. Work to Date (3) A fundamental core system has been implemented, and is publicly available. Preliminary feedback from community members is being received.

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