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Reclaiming plaques for the people: art raids the archives
When people talk about historical plaques and markers, who should get one, why they matter and what they’re ultimately for; things can get heated. And not just because there’s very long waiting lists on most of the bigger plaque schemes … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Culture, Events
Tagged art, art projects, artists, census, community, cultural data, Danny Coope, E17 Art Trail, edmonton, local history, london, walthamstow
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Digital co-op treasure hunt maps Manchester’s history
Open Plaques resources are explicitly geared for re-use by others, taking on new forms beyond the main website in related apps and ebooks. This was taken a step further when our (current) list of 145 plaques in Manchester was brought … Continue reading
Posted in Events, News
Tagged Alison Uttley, case studies, cities, cocreation, cocuration, collaboration, coop, cooperation, cooperative movement, coops, Creative Commons, crowdsourcing, Culture Hack North, digital archaeology, digital heritage, digital history, Doris Speed, engagement, events 2012, Flickr, Frank Kingdon Ward, games, gaming, geolocation, geotagging, Histonauts, Histonauts2, history, Jim Ralley, location, locative media, machinetags, Manchester, Manchester Archives, Manchester Histories Festival, Manchester University, mapping, maps, material culture, mobile, objects, open data, participation, pervasive games, place, play, public archaeology, qr codes, Robert Donat, Robert Owen, social objects, The Big Art People, treasure hunt, Twitter, urban archaeology
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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
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
Blue plaque art action in SW15
A blue plaque event with a twist is due to touchdown in Putney, south west London this Sunday 22nd May. It won’t resemble your average ceremony, although there will be some ‘unveilings’. In the shape of customised plaques that come … Continue reading
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History Hack Day
This past weekend was the world’s first History Hack Day at The Guardian offices in London. This follows on from an increasing specialisation of hack days: we’ve gone from general hack days to hack days specifically on mobile technology (Over … Continue reading
Open Plaques Open Day: UX and Design group
The nature of the Open Plaques project to date has seen the content and functionality grow through incremental updates and improvements. While these changes have really enriched the project, what our group wanted to do is step back and re-ask … Continue reading
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Tagged #C4CC, 2010, design, Open Day, Open Plaques Open Day, ux
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Open Plaques Open Day: content group
With the Open Plaques project it’s difficult to separate content from technology – where does one end and the other start, and are they even usefully separated? But thanks to the team assembled in the Content working group at our … Continue reading
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Tagged #C4CC, 2010, collaboration, content, Open Day, Open Plaques Open Day
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John Lennon Plaque unveiled by Yoko Ono today
My first attendance at a plaque unveiling today, and it was a biggie. Yoko Ono unveiled the plaque to her late husband John Lennon outside their house in Montagu Square, London. Lots of people attended, and the three speakers followed … Continue reading