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For simplicity we use the same 'add content' wether we are adding a 'Picnic next week' or an important historical event. This can be easily dealt with for the Timeline by simply filtering out all events AFTER year 2000.

One challenge we have with documenting the historic high street is that because the street is so narrow most old photos are taken looking up or down the street rather than flat on.  
 

we are using AI (an app called Snapseed) to correct this perspective. We start with the original image, then crop to the individual property. 
 

Writing this as a blog:

Just easily and quickly updated Use It All's front page, in this case by adding a new poster (image) to the events calender story, and selecting Front page/featured. No problems. But the page - now published - shows a set of 'history related pages...' on the righthand bar. I can't work out what is triggering this, as none of my checked 'related sites/pages' etc seem to be directly connected to our multi-faceted ever-growing history project. One for Monday's face to face meeting, me thinks.

Most photos have clues you can read. Pictures with cars in then can show that the photo must be AFTER a particular date. For example the photo opposite has a couple of C reg cars in it, so thanks to this site it must be after 1985.

Kim had always been interested in local history and heritage and had passed this interest onto her children. She had often seen photographs from the Victorian era pop up on the local Facebook history page and found her self staring at the architecture in her street and wondering why it was the way it was.

But she was put off by not knowing where to start learning about the history of her street, and then how she would record it and share it.

A key part of the Ten Streets project could be:

Working with archive photo collections to design and put in place systems that embed multiple copyright protection systems that will discourage unauthorised sharing (via social media) and thus give confidence to such collections to share more widely (sometimes for the first time). This could also allow ways to embed further details in each picture (meta data?). This would travel WITH the image even if duplicated, screenshot or printed as hard copy. This would allow users to discover.

Creating a building/org page with a list of related components eg Committee with a list of committee members

In taxonomy ensure you have the tag that will pull everything together eg /committees/climate-emergency-committee

Create Org page that has the same title eg "Climate Emergency Committee"  and in 'URL Alias' turn off auto and use the syntax /list/page-name eg /list/climate-emergency-committee. This tells Drupal to go and get the list block and filter it by the URL of the page.

• Historic Street Stroll
• Curated by top local Historians
• little known fact constantly changing box
• Mentoring/Training available
• Save your content for use on other projects (as simple csv file)
• Very scalable to other areas/streets (eg Cleveland Rd example)
• Simple, page specific, error reporting system
• inbuilt help system down to field level
• Automated system that asks busin

The Spoke Deal

Lowestoft Old and Now is the Wheel. Spokes are community collaborators. 

We are using cutting edge machine learning AI to enhance old photographs to find details that otherwise would have been lost in the original old photographs.