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Letters after your name
I released an enhancement on the site today to distinguish honourary titles and awards (aka “letters after your name”). Honourary titles are displayed as prefixes to a name and awards are shown as abbreviations as a suffix. So, for example, … Continue reading
Hack The Plaque
Announcement We’re very pleased to announce that @openplaques will be attending the Culture Code Hack in Newcastle on 24th/25th March 2012 as a ‘cultural organisation with data to provide’. We will be represented by Lead Developer Jez Nicholson @jnicho02. By … Continue reading
A little bit of history User Experience (UX)
“User Experience (UX)” is the modern, designer way of saying, “the way a person feels about using a product, system or service”. I just thought that i’d share with you just one example of the things we worry about when presenting … Continue reading
Two ‘private’ plaques in Colchester
At Open Plaques we are often asked how you go about putting up a plaque. Our normal response is that anyone can do so, as long as they can raise the money to have one made, have the building owners’ … Continue reading
WhereCamp EU 2011, Berlin
Open Plaques are proud and excited to be attending WhereCamp EU in Berlin this Friday the 27-28th May. Our representative will be me! Jez Nicholson. I am one of OpenHeritage C.I.C.’s directors and an openplaques.org dev. WhereCamp is an unconference, … Continue reading
What is a ‘plaque’ anyway?
So, what exactly is a plaque…or to be more precise, what is the acceptance criteria for openplaques? The obvious ones are blue, round and issued by English Heritage in London, but once you start looking you quickly find that there … Continue reading
Building the Web of Meaning
During and since the Open Plaques Open Day, Tom Morris has been building in RDF features into our site. I knew that this is all about linking up Open Plaques to Freebase and other online databases, but I didn’t quite … Continue reading
The AI Cookbook OCR plaque reading challenge
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 … Continue reading
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Openplaques.org has an official Flickr machinetag
It’s amazing what you can get if you show a bit of interest. Simon Harriyott had spoken with the guys at Flickr about their brilliant ‘machinetags’ service in connection with our http://openplaques.org/ project and now we have an official Flickr … Continue reading
You say you want a revolution…
Following on from an email conversation about ‘Blue plaques for reds’ I thought that i’d take a look at what blue plaques there are in the openplaques.org database for revolutionaries. Here are the ones that we’ve found: “Vladimir Ilyich Lenin … Continue reading
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