Sharing local history with living memory
Living Memory, a project that provides members of a community with a means to capture, share and explore their collective memory with the aim to interpret and preserve the richness and complexity of local culture, has been established under the European Commission's ESPRIT Programme. Living Memory (LIME) is a project funded by the European Commission, which addresses the research domain of "Intelligent Information Interfaces" (i3). i3 is a European initiative for intelligent information interfaces, which was created in 1997 in order to take a human-centred approach to the exploration of new, visionary interactive systems for people in their everyday activities. The i3 programme is aimed at the broad population and seeks to create novel interaction paradigms for interacting with information. Living Memory will create concepts to support the communication of local history, local news and the sharing of personal experiences and memory in multiple media, accessible via innovative, intuitive interfaces that are integrated in people's homes or in public space. The research proposes with LIME is to use the specific content created by the community as the driver for the creation of interfaces. In other words, the premise is that a user interface for a "content-based service" should reflect the particular typologies of content, which the service contains. Active involvement of community members throughout the entire research trajectory will ensure the development of relevant and meaningful interfaces for content creation, communication and preservation that prove to be useable and attractive for the community members. The community involved are people who live, work or meet in a particular area in Edinburgh in the UK.