[TriLUG] Web code for life histories

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

I think this would be nice ...as an addition to something like
genealogy.com ...add on a couple of other features, and I'd see people
paying for it (at least I KNOW my mother-in-law would ...lol).

r/s

Eric


-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Tim Jowers
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:14 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Web code for life histories

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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