Comments on: In Their Honour

By: Daniel O'Connor

Daniel O'Connor — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:47:44 +0000

Oh, I'd love to get this data into freebase.

By: Tom Horn

Tom Horn — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:47:20 +0000

Wow! Completely Floored. Thanks very much to everyone who voted for us.

By: And the Mashie Goes To…[drum roll] | Government 2.0 Taskforce

And the Mashie Goes To…[drum roll] | Government 2.0 Taskforce — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:25:27 +0000

[...] In Their Honour which brings together service records, maps and photographs for each of the service men and women who have died for Australia. The judging panel felt that although a similar service already exists provided by the Australian War Memorial, this entry explored the data in a noticeably different way attracting the opportunity for a different kind of engagement with the same datasets. [...]

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:50:37 +0000

Hi Anne,
It should be all fixed now. It was a hiccup with Internet Explorer (surprise surprise).

Cheers
Jacqui

By: Anne Colville

Anne Colville — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:01:22 +0000

Hi Jacqui,
Site looks good but I can’t get the search function to work.
Cheers,
Anne

By: Nerida Deane

Nerida Deane — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:15:28 +0000

I just looked up my Great Uncle Al and found the site easy to use and I liked the information it gave me. Maybe one day I’ll have a chance to visit his memorial.

By: Tom Horn

Tom Horn — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:06:46 +0000

Thanks very much Tammy .

We are going to extend the image section to give a historical context to the sacrifice made by Australian service men and women.

We hope this will be a useful educational tool

By: Tammy Butow

Tammy Butow — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:03:32 +0000

This is a fantastic resource for students!
I was teaching year 9 last year and they would have LOVED this!
Excellent work Tom & Jacqui !!

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:58:29 +0000

Adam – That is amazing!! and very special!
My 4 great uncles fought in WWI and just last year we discovered over 100 letters from one of the boys. I transcribed them here
http://www.smythe.id.au/letters/

By: wragge

wragge — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:47:01 +0000

I certainly agree that it’s a great new way of exploring the CWGC data (not so sure about burial place being *more* relevant than birthplace though).

I was mainly concerned about your use of the term ‘service records’ and the references to the NAA, but Tom has been explaining via Twitter.