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Adopt a Soldier

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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A collection of more than 700 photographs of World War I soldiers was digitised in 1999 as part of the Adopt-A-Soldier project. We're delighted to announce that this set was recently used in GovHack 2016 for the iHero Application entry https://2016.hackerspace.govhack.org/content/ihero . Summary from the Entry: Our project ''iHero" is a web application that uses facial recognition to search Australian service photos across various conflicts as captured by the State Library of Western Australia, Australian War Memorial, National Archives of Australia and the State Library of Queensland.

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Title Adopt a Soldier
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/706ed446-6f0a-42fd-aba5-8e4295675107
Remote Last Updated 26/05/2022
Contact Point
State Library of Western Australia
info@data.wa.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1914 - 31/12/1918
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "Adopt a Soldier". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/adopt-a-soldier1