A free documentary about Paul Otlet, narrated by W. Boyd Rayward, his biographer.

Lives are not actually lived in arcs, and where they are, you can be certain that there is either a wannabe novelist or a political agenda lurking in the mental shallows.

it is important to consider the ways in which digitalization affects how biographical or narrative research can be conducted.

Emmet Labs makes it easy to tell stories about how we're all connected, and to let people browse, search and add to those stories.

The purpose of this project is to address theoretical questions relating to the digital production and storage of material contributing to the biography of a city, and the co-construction of digital representations of the city and the city itself. Moreover, it studies the web-based participation of experts and non-experts in the future policies, planning and cultural heritage of cities from an international perspective.

An online relational database with biographical information about approximately 40,000 individuals as of July 2008. The data is meant to be useful for statistical and spatial analysis as well as serving as a kind of biographical reference.

To be published in seven volumes and on-line by Cambridge University Press, the Dictionary of Irish Biography will be the internationally recognised biographical reference work for Ireland.

This exercise uses a combination of the BIO, FOAF and OWL-Time vocabularies. The approach is to follow the Wikipedia article and translate each distinct event into RDF.

Persondata is special metadata which can be added to biographical articles.

Indexes the complete contents of 38 microfiche sets of biographical archives, providing short biographies on more than 3.6 million persons from all periods, countries and regions worldwide.

Dandelife is a place for you to record the events of your life, past and present, public and private.

NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead.

"I had to teach myself genealogy," he said. "Not because I liked genealogy, but because it's how you find things that have been lost."

My Life As a Child documents the lives of 20 American children, between the ages of 7 and 11. They were given digital cameras and the opportunity to film their own lives over the course of several months.

The goal of lifelogging: to record and archive all information in one’s life.

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