Personal Encyclopedias
17 hours ago
- #personal encyclopedia
- #digital preservation
- #family history
- Discovered 1,351 old photos at grandmother's house, spanning decades of family history.
- Organized photos into groups based on physical attributes and stories they told.
- Interviewed grandmother to document the backstory of her wedding, linking photos to events.
- Created a Wikipedia-style page for the wedding using MediaWiki, including scanned photos and detailed captions.
- Expanded the project to document other family events, using interviews and oral history techniques.
- Utilized digital photos' EXIF metadata to automatically generate wiki pages with Claude Code.
- Integrated various data sources (Google Maps, Uber, bank transactions) to enrich the narrative.
- Developed whoami.wiki, a personal encyclopedia built on MediaWiki, to organize and preserve life stories.
- Realized the emotional impact of revisiting and documenting personal and family histories.
- Released whoami.wiki as an open-source project, allowing others to create their own personal encyclopedias.