Open Source Software: “BBC Archive Aid to Trigger Dementia Patients’ Memories”
From the BBC:
The BBC’s online archive RemArc helps stimulates conversations between people with dementia and their carers.
It draws on photos, music, spoken word recordings and film from 1940 to 1980.
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The BBC has made the software behind it open-source, meaning that archives and museums around the world could provide a similar service using their own material.
Jake Berger, from the BBC’s archive development team, said: “We hope that amongst the 1,500 items from our archives that are available on RemArc, there will be something that triggers a reminiscence for everyone.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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