Smallest Day - Personal Digital Archiving

(How all things fash! How all things fare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againTe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fre in which we burn.

Delmore Schwartz “Calmly we walk through this April's day”

TeSmallestDay

A geek & his dad digitizing the family archives.

(How all things fash! How all things fare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againTe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fre in which we burn.

Delmore Schwartz “Calmly we walk through this April's day”

TeSmallestDay

A geek & his dad digitizing the family archives.

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Who is this?

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Talk Outline

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Wedding Pictures Fading

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19,412 scans600 dpi

20% Geo-tagged90% Face-tagged274 People tagged68 home movies

54 audio recordings

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video

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T E C H N I C A LOur tools

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Dumb sofware (HP!)

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Dragon NaturallySpeaking

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WAR DEPARTMENT

Manila P.I.June 19, 1941

Dear Mother,

Well here I am back ant work again. Boy it sure does feel good. I just got out of the hospital day before yesterday. Am not busy right now so thought I would write again.

Am I writing often enough for you now? About four times a month. I can't think of much to write about except that I am well and happy. I will try to send you my pictures this month if I can. I am only drawing $30.00 a month right now and it don't go very far. Expect to make a rating(?) almost any time now.

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Facetagging ancestors

GEDCOMPythonScript

Outlook

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SmallestDay Project

● Open-Source, Wordpress-style● All media types● Login-agnostic● Scan-to-Web● Mechanical Turk transcription● Wiki-style collaboration● Sync'd to individuals

Interested to help? Contact me! stan@wanderingstan.com

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Ten and now

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Uncle Bob

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2nd task of Aging

Carl Jung

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Working Together

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(How all things fash! How all things fare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againTe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fre in which we burn.

Delmore Schwartz “Calmly we walk through this April's day”

Stan Jamesstan@wanderingstan.comwanderingstan.com@wanderingstan