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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 website and mobile app that provides the user with a detailed map of Arlington National Cemetery, the United States military cemetery. The map is composited from satellite photography overlaid with a street map. Users may search for a specific…

A memorial website that records the names and details of the 10,608 people who were buried at Balmain Cemetery in Sydney between 1868 and 1912, before the cemetery was demolished and converted into a public park (Pioneer Memorial Park).

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 prototype wearable electronic system designed to facilitate a self-guided audio tour of Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. The system comprises a backpack with a tablet computer and personal GPS tracking system, a set of headphones and a…

An artwork based around a mobile app that is designed to be used at a cemetery. The cemetery in question changes as the artwork must be set up for a particular site. Vanitas presents the user with a combination of text, images and audio recordings…

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 prototype augmented reality (AR) application designed for use at Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore. The app runs on an Android mobile device and is designed to recognise landmarks such as tombstones when they are presented to the camera, using a…

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 piece of wearable jewellery that is associated with one or more persons who are buried at the cemetery. The jewellery piece is designed to be worn by a visitor, and grows warmer as the visitor approaches the site of its associated grave, until…