The State Library of Queensland's Frank and Eunice Corley collection is a unique record of the Queensland suburbs of the 1960s and 1970s, comprising over 61,000 photographs. We worked with SLQ and our friends at Icelab to design and develop a rich, explorable interface that invites the community to describe and enrich the collection. Visitors can tag and locate houses, as well as adding their own stories and recollections.
The Explorer was launched in early December 2018 as part of the SLQ exhibition Home: A Suburban Obsession, featuring the Corley Collection. The response has been remarkable, with over 5000 houses located and 400 stories in the first two weeks alone.
We also developed an in-gallery interactive for Home: A Suburban Obsession. This is a web application running in kiosk mode, drawing on live data from the Explorer site. Images courtesy of State Library of Queensland.
