Hi all, I've been running a side-project called Open Plaques ( http://www.openplaques.org/), which aims to collect data on and index all of the UK's (and possibly eventually the world's) plaques. It's still early days, but we've got some nice integration with Flickr going on (see http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/07/06/extraextraextra/), and 1634 plaques already catalogued.
The thing that I've soon learnt is that it's not just English Heritage who put up plaques, oh no - they only cover London. Instead there are dozens and dozens of organisations that have at some point or another decided to commemorated something by concreting a plaque to a wall. See http://www.openplaques.org/organisations for the list of organisations we've got data from so far. Whilst some of these are local councils and special interest groups (eg the Max Miller Appreciation Society), many of them are "Civic Societies". There seems to be a decent list of these here: http://www.civicsocieties.org.uk/societies, but very little indication online of what these societies *do* (their websites are typically pretty poor). I wondered whether there'd be any scope in producing a kind of myCivicSociety, which might make these organisations a bit more well-known, transparent, and accessible? Frankie -- Frankie Roberto Experience Designer, Rattle 0114 2706977 http://www.rattlecentral.com
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