LivingWithDragons.com
Gregory Marler is living in new places, helping to create OpenStreetMap, and only using maps that he is free to copy/edit/redistribute. Since 2007 so much in Durham has been mapped by Gregory, along with other volunteers that have been inspired and motivated by the work. The blog also highlights what can be done with the OpenStreetMap database that they contributed to.
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Penguin Hop
Collections of places and things in our world. This creative website lists different types of locations around Dundee for people to visit or talk about.
It’s built on WordPress with a custom plugin and theme to extend functionality and retain maintainability of the site. The focus is location, with some subtle geospatial aspects, but that level of technology is gently presented to the viewer. Custom post types allow special display of each “hop” category and all the usual WordPress admin features and UI can be used.
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The Henson Journals
Working with multiple university departments, Gregory Marler was the lead developer for an AHRC-funded project to host Bishop Henley Henson’s journals from the 1900s. The XML repository archive has linked metadata to highlight people, places, and organisations and enables readers to find other mentions by Henson. Henson’s personal journals are of interest to academic researchers and casual studies both for political history as well as religious interest. To enable the search and linking systems, the repository website was built with Lucene ElasticSearch and used the Samvera/Hydra stack with many customisations including GitHub API integration for data backups.
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You can also read about my past websites and what happened to them.
