Tag Archives: collaboration

Peer Plaques: community voices writ large

Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London, was once the symbolic epicentre of free speech, a concept mirrored in city and town public squares wherever people were entitled to speak their mind or insisted on doing so. Nowadays the web with … Continue reading

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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

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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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