Hi all. As previously announced, we’re holding an Open Day about Open Plaques on Saturday 25th September 2010 at the Centre for Creative Collaboration in London. It’s completely free, including lunch, and registration is now open. Before you go ahead and register though, I thought I’d explain briefly what the plans for the day are. [...]
One of the purposes of Open Plaques is to provide an interesting geographical dataset that external projects can use licence free. We are trying a few projects before fully opening up the api, so please contact us if you have a good idea and want to use our data. Ian Ozsvald, author of The AI [...]
Good news! We’ll be holding our Open Plaques Open Day event on Saturday 25th September 2010 in the Centre for Creative Collaboration (venue hashtag: #c4cc) at 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG. If you’re interested in joining us, save the date! Located centrally just 5 minutes walk from Kings Cross station, bookings will open soon, [...]
It’s amazing what you can get if you show a bit of interest. Simon Harriyott had spoken with the guys at Flickr about machinetags in connection with our http://openplaques.org/ project and now we have an official Flickr machinetag. Read about it on the Flickr Dev blog. What this means is that if any photos of [...]
We’re delighted to announce that Open Plaques has been selected for RSA Catalyst funding and support. This backing from the RSA will help us accelerate collaborative development of the website and its content through a one-day event this autumn, and also sees the entire plaques project come full circle as the original plaques scheme was [...]
London has been home to many philosophers, some native, others transient, just like the melting-pot of Londoners today – John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Jeremy Bentham, Mary Wollstonecraft, Bertrand Russell and Karl Popper to name a few. I went looking recently for some of them. What I found was disappointment and hope. My search was frustrated [...]
One of the lovely things about seeing plaques, both in the wild and on the Open Plaques website, is learning new things about the people commemorated. Sometimes I learn things I didn’t know I didn’t know! For example, when I came across Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s plaque, it took me a moment to realise that it [...]
As the Open Plaques project is all about connecting past and present, time is bound into its DNA. Walking around our streets, the past is sometimes obvious but frequently less so. How we bridge that gap has got me thinking about the legacy of imaginative time travellers themselves. So first, let’s jump back 29 years… [...]
This weekend I went to a wedding in Stoke, and stayed overnight. As I knew I’d be travelling back today, I planned to find some plaques to photograph between Stoke and my home in Sussex. I looked at the map showing all the plaques in we know about, and after clicking on a few of [...]
Polling has finished, and the first few seats have been announced as I write, so I thought it was apt to mention the Suffragettes, who fought for women’s right to vote. We have some plaques commemorating some of the most notable ladies: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Holland Park Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst, Manchester Lady [...]
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