Frankie
Can't speak to the question of myCivicSociety, but like the openplaques
stuff. Will probably add some of the data to OpenlyLocal.com (formerly
TheyWorkForyouLocal.com) if that's OK (see you have XML/json interface),
as many of them seem to be councils.
C
Frankie Roberto wrote:
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
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Frankie Roberto
Experience Designer, Rattle
0114 2706977
http://www.rattlecentral.com
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