Mashups

I particularly liked the Then and Now: historic New York images. Comparing the old photo to what the streetscape looks like now is interesting, and the 360 degrees panning is pretty clever.
The Ipswich library is borrowing and scanning old photos of Ipswich and adding them to Picture Ipswich on our website using ArchivalWare. It would be interesting to set up something like the Then and Now site using some of the old photos the library has collected. These could be linked with the council's heritage trails booklets, which provide a guide to the history of the city's churches, pubs, cemetries, rivers, coal mining and rural townships. Also the Local History room could set up a site showing the many historic Queenslander houses that are in the area. Many owners of these houses come to the library to research the history of their house.

It was interesting to see the many different mashups available. I was not aware of these sites until doing this course. It makes me wonder how the general public is expected to find these sites.