Organize your memories online with Collectionaire

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Collectionaire
Seamlessly Organize, Share, and Securely Store
The Best of Your Family Memories
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The Challenge of Organizing, Viewing and Sharing
The Problem Organizing collections of old and
new family photos, home movies, and keepsake
mementos is a significant challenge, made even
more difficult as a result of format and
technology changes over the past 40 years.
Changes to Formats and Storage Medium of Photos
and Home Movies
Found mostly in printed form or on 8mm reels, and
stored in photo albums and boxes. Home movie
format shifted to 30 minute to 2 hour tapes,
while photos went digital and were stored on
computer hard drives or discs. Videos became
short digital clips and users began uploading
these and digital photos to cloud services like
Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox and Google
Drive. Google Photos, iCloud Photos and other
services enable automatic digital uploads with
search by facial recognition, landmarks and
descriptive nouns.
1920 to 1975
1980 to 2010
2012 to 2018
Today
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The Challenge of Organizing, Viewing and Sharing
Cloud Storage is Creating a New Opportunity
Cloud storage has become highly affordable in
the past five years, enabling backup,
multi-device viewing and sharing of all of a
familys photos, home movies and keepsake
mementos. But cloud services are not designed
to optimize the organization of this media for a
given person or family. Collectionaire was
created to take this last step.
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The Challenge of Organizing, Viewing and Sharing
Family Photos are Hard to Organize The first
problem is that even if legacy items are in
digital formats, the files are usually simply
placed on a hard drive, disc or thumb drive, and
not easily organized, viewed or shared. The
system of organization is usually a complex
nested tree structure that can be cumbersome to
access.
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The Challenge of Organizing, Viewing and Sharing
No One Site is Best Many have taken the
additional step of uploading their digital media
to cloud-based services like Flickr, Dropbox,
Google Photos, iCloud Photos, Vimeo, YouTube,
Facebook, etc. But organizing still remains
either a nested list of files, or Album
thumbnails on multiple sites. And most use not
one but multiple cloud sites as few have found
just one that works for every type of file.
Flickr Album Interface
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The Challenge of Organizing, Viewing and Sharing
Special Presentation Websites Many users also
have memories on specific websites that are
required to host the memory, such as the blog
sites Tumblr and SquareSpace, or the eBook sites
Flipsnack and Yumpu.
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The Challenge of Organizing, Viewing and Sharing

• Legacy Profiles A parallel challenge is that of
  creating a rich, full-profile legacy memory of a
  parent or grandparent, or of ones collective
  family, containing photos, videos, news
  clippings, keepsakes and memoirs.

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Our Objectives to Solve This Problem

• A Better Way With Collectionaire, weve sought
  to give people a better way to do all of this
  i.e. organize and view their cloud-stored items
  and associate each with an ancestor, a current
  family member, or the collective family.

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Our Solution

• A Table of Contents for Every Family Member Our
  core concept is this Users create a media
  index, or collection, for each ancestor or family
  member for whom they wish to allocate keepsake
  items. Each Collection allows
• An optional legacy bio of the person or family
• Chapters or categories of life interests or
  time periods.
• Entries under each Chapter which contain
  videos, documents, photo collections and other
  documents, along with descriptions of each.
• Clicking on a preview image for an Entry takes
  the user to that media item or album, wherever it
  is stored on the web.
• Entries can link to media on any cloud service
  that allows a shared URL.

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Our Solution
A separate family collection is created for every
couple. All items must be stored in a cloud
service, but these can be many different services
and many types of media. Examples of keepsakes
might include Home MoviesPhotosScrapbooks that
can be converted to digitalNewspaper
ArticlesAudio RecordingsDiplomas and
CertificateseBooks PhotoBooksBlogs, Journals
and WritingsArt and Projects
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Our Solution

• Users access each Collection through their Family
  Tree Dashboard.

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Our Solution

• Clicking an individual brings up that persons
  media Collection page.
• Clicking the link circle between a couple brings
  up their Family Collection page which may contain
  family albums, family videos, vacation albums,
  etc.
• The number associated with each node denotes the
  number of Entries stored for that person or
  family.

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Our Solution
Users can build their tree as deeply as they wish
to add information on any family member.
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Our Solution
Many features of the Collectionaire app have yet
to be disclosed. For example, the app will allow
users to share their Collections with others and
set guest viewing permissions to one of four
levels of privacy. And all features for storing
and viewing will be available on all platforms
PC/Mac, Tablet and Mobile phones. Phase II of
Collectionaire will allow family members to
merge trees to combine collections of each, and
to use a new Collectionaire cloud storage service
designed specifically for viewing photos and
videos, and creating custom slide show.
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