11/13/05 02:15 - 60ºF - ID#33180

Upgraded Memory Interface

I upgraded the memory interface

It is pretty effective now. Once I collect some more memories I will throw in a search engine. As soon as I decide on a final server solution I will also begin the primary doc upload section.

Please add some memories.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

11/12/05 01:50 - 54ºF - ID#33179

Upgrade Info

I will be working on the primay doc section next but for now, the interface to add memories has been upgraded with the following features.

1. You can visit the memories on your wap enabled cell phone using the beta mobile interface at rememberbuffalo.org/wap
2. The genre select list now shows you how many other memories have been assigned to specific genres.
3. submit reports the total number of memories that have been submitted.
4. The submit page displays 10 random memories from the total pool each time you visit.
3. The code is there to search by genre although I am not releasing the intertface for it until there are more memories. Currently, we are around 20.
4. All memories must include at least a location, a title, one genre, the year(s) it occurred and a memory.
5. Memories have been limited to Buffalo proper with boundaries of the Niagara River on the westside, Tifft Farm area to the south, Kenmore Avenue to the North and Bailey Avenue to the East. These boundaries might change over time but for now I would like to focus on the city itself.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

11/11/05 11:47 - 40ºF - ID#33178

Delawanda

Now I know my "homeland" was once called Delawanda

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: historical society

11/11/05 10:26 - 40ºF - ID#33177

Today at Rememberbuffalo

(e:lilho) and I headed down to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society to do some research for the Remember Buffalo Project.

While we were there we found this pic of (e:joshua) and (e:jason)'s house across from spot at Cleveland and Elmwood. We also found some pics of the old trolley tracks on elmwood.

Here is a park at elmwood and Ferry along with the trolley tracks.

Here is the a shot of elmwood and North.

It is incredible what research consist of at the historical society. I cannot believe that their data is not digitized and searable on computers. You actually hold and look at original images in folder using special white gloves. You can request image photocopies for $0.25 but are not alowed to take pictures in the library which is ridiculous in my opinion. If you want to use their material you need to pay $25 per image for a six month lease to use the image. And that is the price for a non-profit project. How anti-preservation is that. If the place ever burns down or the material degrades there will be no external copies.

Hopefully using the remember buffalo primary document upload interface we will be able to collect thousands of primary documents of our own. Which I will then donate to a historical preservation group which promises free access and public domain for the contents.

Afterwards, I met with Doug Lambert from Randforce

about collaborating on the project. He seems like a really creative, driven guy that will be fun to work with.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: help

11/08/05 08:28 - 43ºF - ID#33176

I need a partner

[size=m]Remember Buffalo[/size]
What I would really like to expand upon is the Remember Buffalo project but I am am a weird standstill. Will it be developed in PHP or RoR? Who will I work with? Will it be yahoo or google maps based. Will I make my own mapping software now that I am all trigonometry style. I want a project with meaning and long term information delivery and storability.

Winter makes it less exciting but it is a great time to start out collecting all the data.

I want someone to work with and go with my places to check out old data, scan pics, think up ideas, etc. It is boring working alone. I was hoping (e:mike) would be into it, but he is always busy looking for a date.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: docs

10/25/05 12:46 - 42ºF - ID#33175

Primary Docs

(e:matthew) began sorting some of his photos into genres for the primary doc sectio nof the site. It is a huge amount of work and we hope to have some of the primary doc section up by this weekend. (e:jim) has also joined on as a photographer on the project.

Today we added two new genres. Downtown and gardening. If anyone is interested in working on the project feel free tyo shoot me an email.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: info

10/23/05 11:13 - 42ºF - ID#33174

Genres List

Katie helped me get all the genres ready so that now you can pick up to three genres per memory. You can also add keywords if you want, although I am not sure if I will keep that. There are currently 72 genres. While totally optional, by combining them into groups of three you should be able to fit any story.

Here they are.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

10/23/05 02:20 - 43ºF - ID#33173

Add Your Memories

The Remember Buffalo Project is pleased to announce the map beta for the memory input engine. You can add location based memories of Buffalo using the map found by clicking on the "::submit memory beta::" link at the top of the site at

For each memory you can link up to three genres and a time period. By combining three genres you should be able to classify most memories. For ones that can't be classified you can add keywords. For example, a story about my grandmother moving to America and buying a house on the west side can be classified under the genres immigration, housing, and family.

Right now you have up to five minutes to delete memories using the same computer that you inputted them form. This system may change in the future depending on feedback.

By contributing memories you are helping us shape the future interface of the project. A project description can be foudn on the front page of the site.

The next technological development phase of the project is going to be creating a system to collect thousands of genre specific primary documents to help inspire memories. The next social development phase of the project is finding a PR person, starting to advertise and finding a grant.

If you have other suggestions for the Remember Buffalo Project please add them here

or if would like to volunteer, please feel free to use the contact link at the top of the site and send us an email.

I added a decades option to the year occurred list for memories that span more than one year, or for ones you can't remember the exact year.

So check it out and add some memories to this beta

. As soon as I get my other paid work done I will begin adding the primary document section.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: brainstorming

10/22/05 03:48 - 45ºF - ID#33172

Facilitation Part Deux

I scheduled another facilitation today for the history project. Considering that not one person I invited to help brainstorm showed up, it went well. Katie invited some people from the creativity program at school. One of them, Patrick, turned out to be someone I knew.

I definitely think that I need to get some professionals from the fields of history, teaching, information science, and PR involved. However, we produced lots of helpful ideas that I put on the suggestions page at the rememberbuffalo.org

site.

One of them was to offer downloadable memory map tours for people to print and walk when they do not have access to a cell phone. Also to set up some sort of network for geocachers as we will already have the coordinates for the memory markers.

Katie's warm up activity was great. She had pictures of Buffalo and we had to create memories from them.