Glider Innovations

Your history, searchable and connected, in time for the anniversary.

I build custom archive systems for schools and colleges. Your yearbooks, newspapers, magazines, bulletins, photographs, and oral histories become one place alumni can explore -- and it keeps growing as they send in their own stories.

Write to me about your anniversary

What alumni can do with it

Follow a class across the decades

From first-year photographs to reunion notes, a class appears and reappears through the years, one click at a time.

Open the week they arrived

What the campus paper was talking about the week someone's grandparent first walked in, side by side with the yearbook from that year.

Keep the anniversary stories

The memories you gather for the celebration stay searchable next to the archive they belong with, long after the gala is over.

How it works

  1. 1
    A short look, freeI look at what your institution has already published online and send you a one-page view: what is there, which years, and where the gaps are.
  2. 2
    A preview, about three weeksI build a working slice from part of your archive, so your committee can try it with real pages before deciding anything more.
  3. 3
    The full archiveSized to your collections and your anniversary plans. It keeps growing afterward as alumni add their own stories and photographs.

Built only from material you choose to include. Names of living people are handled with care, and anything can be taken down on request.

Who builds it

I'm James Intriligator. I design custom systems built around one institution's own material, which I call Custom Gliders, and each one is made to order rather than taken off a shelf. I trained in psychology and cognitive science (PhD, Harvard), was Professor of Innovation and Consumer Psychology at Bangor University in Wales, and spent years leading innovation groups in industry.

Right now I'm building an archive for a university library that wants a century of its printed bulletins and magazines searchable and connected. An earlier build helps an author work through a large research archive for a nonfiction book.