In 1986 the BBC launched an ambitious project to record a snapshot of life across the UK for future generations.
The people behind the the longest tapestry in the world now have their sights set on a global project to record the Scottish Diaspora.
"The scale of it is truly extraordinary, " said Dr Toby Butler from the University of East London who is leading a project to record the memories of survivors and rescuers and the relatives of those who died.
The Jetta Hybrid Land Speed Record project shows both the sporty nature of our Hybrid offering and the technical excellence of our engineers in Wolfsburg and in the Test Center California.
ENGADGET: Volkswagen 2013 Jetta Hybrid sets speed record, gives new meaning to hypermiling
But this is Under Armour stock not an investment in a sports bar there is a track record to project against.
FORBES: Brady's Under Armour Deal to Include Equity Stake--Why Don't More?
The Guinea Bissau project for Civil Birth Record stands out among them.
The St Kilda Diaries project will enrich this visual record to further develop public understanding of this remote and fascinating member of the UNESCO UK World Heritage community.
Jennifer Stewart, head of the Heritage Lottery Fund Wales, added: "As well as encouraging local residents to explore their past, this project will provide a permanent record of Treuddyn's special connection with the Urdd".
Versailles chief architect Fr??d??ric Didier's preface--in which he praises the resuscitation of "subtleties that one believed forever lost"--attests to the seriousness underlying Zega and Dams' light touch: This project represents a definitive architectural record of Versailles.
Such a project has been almost inevitable as record labels scramble for answers to declining album sales.
CNN: Rocking or reeling? Record labels adapt to a world of online music
Meanwhile, in Spain, organizers constructed a pavilion from 45, 000 recycled milk cartons, winning the world record for a construction project using a recycled material.
ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: cardboard cockroach, a milk carton pavilion and the iPotty
Vincent Hanna, a researcher with The Spamhaus Project, said the group's record speaks for itself.
The Kip Project, based in Wellington, said record donations of food and other goods had come in after harvest festivals across the county.
When we met him as a First Mover Fellow, he already had a successful track record as a process and project engineer and an assistant branding manager for Vaseline products.
FORBES: Social Intrapreneurs: Disruptive Innovators on the Inside
In March 1972, a plaque he designed with legendary astronomer Carl Sagan was blasted into space on board the Pioneer 10 spacecraft. ( Click here to see the Pioneer Plaque.) A few years later, Drake and Sagan would team up again on a much more ambitious project, attaching a gold-plated record full of music and photos onto the two Voyager probes.
The Batlife project will train 15 volunteers to collect and record bat identification, run workshops in bat-box building, and help develop a bat walk and a digital bat trail.
True, the film has yet to accrue the kind of cult fanbase which has developed around Tommy Wiseau's so-bad-it's-amazing "The Room" -- a movie referenced in "MacGruber" -- but that may be because it's not that bad (for the record, this reporter supports any project in which Val Kilmer plays a character called "Dieter Von Cunth").
Kickstarter (735 music projects) Music-centric funding platforms like Oocto, Pledgemusic and Indiegogo have all helped artists communicate directly with their fan base and get love money for their next project instead of being so dependent on finding a record deal.
David Ferrucci, the IBM scientist running the project, won't say what Watson's record was this fall but insists it is ready for Ken and Brad (and Alex Trebek).
From the outset, however, the scope, complexity, and administration of the project were daunting and probably foreshadowed its increasingly troubled track-record.
FORBES: What Caused A Billion Dollar Federal Study Of Child Health To Implode?
The government seems to be flouting its commitment to the pipeline as a way to prove it is committed to solving the energy crisis despite its track record, and has emphasized that it is going forward with the project in the face of U.S. opposition.
This extraordinary record of the diversity of American English is the longest continuously-funded project of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
WHITEHOUSE: A to Zydeco: Saving the Diversity of American English
This, and their past track record, is enough to inspire ten thousand backers to come running to the project on day one.
FORBES: 'Torment: Tides Of Numenera' Launches On Kickstarter: Long Live Old-School RPGs
With such a suspect record, why would Washington want to join forces with Moscow on the BST project, even if the economic and energy benefits were overwhelming?
More importantly, its temperature record has since been broadly validated and corroborated, not least by the Berkeley Earth project.
That is the record that he is putting out there on the airwaves, and we certainly are using this project to actively contest that statement.
That single project is about equal in capacity to all of the solar PV installed nationwide all of last year, a record-setting year.
FORBES: Solar Thermal Hopefuls Make Their Case, Battle For Financing
According to TheNextWeb, the project looks looks set to rival the Pebble Smartwatch and OUYA Android gaming system for the all-time Kickstarter fundraising record.
FORBES: 'Reinvented' Lightbulb Smashes Through Kickstarter Goal, Raising $270,000
Project Runningblade's mower is driven by Don Wales, whose grandfather Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the world land speed record at seven-mile long Pendine Sands in 1924.
应用推荐