The Local Memory Project provides tools to build collections (#localmemory) of stories for local events from local sources:

1. Local Memory Project - Chrome Extension helps you discovers, collect, share and archive collections of local stories from local sources.

2. Local Memory Project - Geo returns a collection of newspapers and/or tv and/or radio stations in order of proximity to a zip code.

Local US and Non-US local news repo:

1. US local news repository
2. Non-US local news repository

Citing Project

A publication related to this project appeared in the proceedings of ACM/IEEE JCDL 2017 (Read the PDF). Please cite it as below:

A. C. Nwala, M. C. Weigle, A. B. Ziegler, A. Aizman, and M. L. Nelson, "Local memory project: Providing tools to build collections of stories for local events from local sources," in Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2017), pp. 219–228, 2017.

@inproceedings{jcdl-2017:nwala:lmp,
  author    = {Nwala, Alexander C. and Weigle, Michele C. and Ziegler, Adam B. and Aizman, Anastasia and Nelson, Michael L.},
  title     = {{Local memory project: providing tools to build collections of stories for local events from local sources}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)},
  series    = {JCDL '17},
  year      = {2017},
  month     = {jun},
  location  = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
  pages     = {219-–228},
  numpages  = {10},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL.2017.7991576},
  doi       = {10.1109/JCDL.2017.7991576},
  isbn      = {9781538638613},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address   = {New York, NY, USA}
}