civlab·human-memory-project.psyverse.fun·memory

Human Memory Project

An open archive of ordinary lives — collected, indexed, made searchable so future humans (and machines) can know who we were.

The historical record has always belonged to the famous. The Human Memory Project flips this: ordinary lives, in their own words, structured for posterity. A contributor uploads a structured account of their life — places lived, work done, people loved, beliefs held, eras witnessed — under a permissive license. The archive is then indexed, made searchable, and made queryable in natural language: 'what did people in Wuhan in 1985 think about the future?' returns first-person accounts.

This is not a social network. There are no likes, no feed. It is a library — a deliberate, slow, careful infrastructure for the part of human experience that historically goes unrecorded.

Interactive demo

Use it — don't read about it.

8 records

This sample search is plain substring. The production version will use embedding-based semantic retrieval.

Features

What this platform promises.

01

Submit your own life record

30-90 minute structured form. Auto-saves.

02

Search by era + place + question

Find first-person accounts by joint filter.

03

Anonymous mode

Submit and search without revealing identity.

Modules

Modules that compose this platform.

01 · structured-form

Structured submission

12-section template that produces well-indexed life records.

02 · license

Permissive license

CC0 or CC-BY by default; contributor chooses.

03 · search

Natural-language search

Ask the corpus questions; get first-person accounts back.

04 · anonymization

Anonymization tool

Strip names; keep places, dates, professions.

05 · preservation

Preservation

IPFS pinning + university partner mirror.

Data model

LifeRecord

field
type
note
id
uuid
Record id (anonymous by default)
born
year
Birth year (decade-bin acceptable)
places
Place[]
Places lived, in order
work
Stint[]
Work history
beliefs
string[]
Belief shifts over time
license
enum
{CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA}