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Historypin is a digital, user-generated archive of historical photos, videos, audio recordings and personal recollections. Users are able to use the location and date of their content to "pin" it to Google Maps.〔Leith, Sam ("With Historypin, photography has entered the fourth dimension" ), ''The Guardian'', 4 July 2010〕 Where Google Street View is available, users can overlay historical photographs and compare it with the contemporary location. ((Street Viewed Photo) ) This content can be added and explored online and via a series of Smartphone applications The project was created by the non-profit company Shift (formerly We Are What We Do), as part of their inter-generational work, with funding and support from Google as part of a series of commitments to digital inclusion.〔Crow, Charlotte ("Historypin: Patchwork History" ), ''History Today'', 7 June 2010〕 The website has over 200,000 assets and recollections "pinned" to the Historypin map around the world, with higher contributions in the UK, USA and Australia.〔Skipworth, Hunter ("Historypin turns Google Street View into a window on the past" ), ''The Telegraph'', 26 June 2010〕 The beta version of the website was launched in June 2010 at the Royal Institute in London by Nick Stanhope, CEO of Shift and the full project was launched at the Museum of the City of New York in July 2011. ==Collections== The website features a range of themed collections, some of which commemorate historical events. Previous collections include: :August 2010: (The High Street Collection ) :September 2010: (The Blitz Collection ) to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the start of The Blitz. :October 2010: (Haunted Collection ) :November 2010: (The Second World War Collection ) to commemorate Remembrance Day. :December 2010: (The Christmas Collection ) :January 2011: (The Facial Hair Through Time Collection ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Historypin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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