[TriLUG] Web code for life histories

Andrew Perrin clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Wed Jul 23 11:16:24 EDT 2008


Thanks, good leads.

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA



On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Tim Jowers wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Sounds very useful. The few related things I've seen in the past are:
> 1) some dude is recording everythign he ever does on the Internet. Sorta a
> life history.
> 2) online memorial sites. I've never looking into these much though.
> 3) linked-in and other such sites let you put your career history.
> Graphical? No.
>
> Tim
>
>
> 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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>> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -
>> http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
>> Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
>> University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
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