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Kim’s Story
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.
Working with archive photo collections
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.
Create Org page with attached dynamic list
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.
USP list
- 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
Collaborative contract
The Spoke Deal
Lowestoft Old and Now is the Wheel. Spokes are community collaborators.
Getting the most out of old photographs
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.
Page error reporting system
If a user spots an error, they can click on a prominent link on every page that generates a new email, addressed to the webmaster and containing THAT specific page ID and title. All the user has to do is say what's wrong eg "It's not Fri 28th its Sat 29th.."
We will make every effort to resolving issues within 48 hours of notification