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A business in Tokyo, Japan, that hires out workers to perform maintenance upon a grave. Maintenance tasks include cleaning, tidying, weeding, arranging flowers and lighting incense. The worker records the maintenance using using a 360-degree camera,…

A service that creates explorable virtual recreations of a funeral service using 360 degree photography (otherwise known as VR photography). Marketed towards US military veterans and their families, for those who are unable to attend a veteran's…

A prototype digital application that collates photographs of gravestones taken by smartphone with their GPS-based latitude and longitude to automatically create a detailed map of the cemetery. The smartphone user annotates each photo with details…

A crowdsourced online database of genealogical records, including details about cemeteries and graveyards as well as census and legal records. Cemetery records include photographs of headstones and transcriptions of the information available on or…

A custom-made granite headstone (or other memorial object) featuring a QR code that links to an online memorial page. The memorial page can receive and display text, photos, video recordings, comments and sharing links to social media sites.

Cloud-based software for cemetery management. The public-facing website, Everafter, provides a search function to look up records of deceased people and find their gravesite plotted on an aerial map. The cemetery business website, Plotbox, provides…

A Las Vegas-based videography service that produces live and recorded webcasts of funeral services.

The US National Cemetery Administration registry of graves of military veterans and their families. The provides a search function to look up burial records, drawn from various government sources, and locate the corresponding gravesite.

A temporary networked system that was set up at a legacy cemetery in Cambridge, UK, to encourage visitors to engage with the cemetery in new ways. The system comprised indoor and outdoor components. The outdoor components were mobile devices given…

A website called "Stranicy pamyati" ("Memory Pages") is part of the "Pomni vsegda" ("Remember Always") project and is designed to keep alive the memories of people and events that have passed away. The service allows users to create memory pages for…