A Day in the Life aims to provide a personal connection to material from Australian Archives and historical datasets.
A Day in the Life displays photographs and information providing a snapshot of what daily life was like on a given day and location in Australia.
See what life was like on the day that you were born, or compare with when your parents or grandparents were born.
A Day in The Life was developed as a tablet-friendly web application for govhack 2012 in Canberra by Mike Leonard and Anna Gerber. It mashes up data from the National Archives, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Bureau of Meteorology and dbpedia.
The code is released under an MIT license.