Creating Personal Encyclopedias: Preserving Family History Through whoami.wiki
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Summary
The article describes the author's experience organizing 1,351 old family photos found at their grandmother's house, which led to the creation of whoami.wiki - a personal encyclopedia platform. The author reflects on how digital photos lack the physical context and metadata of analog photos, and how organizing the photos revealed patterns and stories about their family history. The platform aims to help people create personal knowledge bases that connect memories, documents, and experiences in a structured way, preserving personal history in the digital age.
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· 3 pulledI counted 1,351 of them spanning all the way from my grandparents in their early 20s, my mom as a baby, to me in middle school, just around the time when we got our first smartphone and all photos since then were backed up online.
Everything was all over the place so I spent some time going through them individually and organizing them into groups.
Some of the initial groups were based on the physical attributes of the photograph like similar aspect ratios or
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