[TriLUG] Web code for life histories

[James Jones]

Andrew,

Sounds like a great idea for personal use, but don't know how many
takers there would be if the depiction was online for the world to
see.

I would want to use it in "mapping" my ancestor's lives.

jcj

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Andrew Perrin
<clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have a grad student who is working on an online interface for a sort of
> life history questionnaire, and I was wondering if such a thing or
> something like it has been done elsewhere. Let me describe the idea and
> then let me know if (a) you've done or seen something like it; or (b) have
> any ideas about its implementation. There's some possibility we could pay
> to have it developed, so if you think it sounds doable in an
> all-open-source way (preferably postgresql, perl, and apache) let me know.
>
> The idea is that the user would have a relatively short list of events
> s/he could add to his/her life history: educational transitions, got a
> job, left a job, got married, had a kid, etc.  Each of these would have a
> series of particulars (date, reason, etc.).  The most interesting part of
> this is that, as a user adds events, they would show up on a graphical
> depiction of his/her life across the top of the screen, where a black line
> shows the person's whole life (thus far) from birth, and various other
> colored lines represent jobs, relationships, education, and so on.
>
> Thoughts?
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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