By Nick Clayton
Using the Historypin platform, an ambitious project, "Pinning The Queen's History," has been launched to bring together 60 years of pictures, audio and video related to the British Monarch and her travels across the world. The aim is to create an interactive online gallery of material from official and amateur sources.
The Next Web reports:
If you're new to Historypin, it's a platform that lets people "record the story of human history". It was beta-launched in June 2010, and launched globally in July last year, partnering with over 100 libraries, archives and museums, which upload and pin their content to Historypin. It was developed by the not-for-profit company We Are What We Do, in partnership with Google.
The Pinning The Queen's History project will constitute photos, videos and audio clips 'pinned' directly onto a Google Map on the project site, each correlating to the location they were captured.
Since 1952, The Queen has made 261 official overseas visits, covering 116 different countries, and with that in mind Historypin is looking to get the public participating in the project by submitting their own media to the site.
The content will be overlaid onto Street View too, so you can compare views from throughout the Queen's reign with how the streets look today.
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