The best entries - one for each of the 21,915 days that make up the last sixty years - will be sealed into the capsule and presented to Her Majesty The Queen as a gift from the Commonwealth family to mark her Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012. The rest of the content will continue to exist online as a resource for students and teachers, historians, and academics. The result will be a unique social archive of the people's history of the Commonwealth.


People everywhere are invited to add their story to the archive. Contributors don't need to be from a Commonwealth country to put something in the capsule, but the content must be about a Commonwealth country. It could be a holiday, a major event, where someone of the family was born - anything really - as long as it involves on of the 54 Commonwealth nations!


Each contribution can consist of a maximum of five items. One of these must be a description as to why it was put in - a message to the world really telling them why it's important to the person contributing. Accepted content types include video, audio, photos, drawings, and poems.


A Diamond Jubilee is a rare event, and there hasn't been one since Queen Victoria's in 1879. The Jubilee celebrations will be held in June 2012, when celebrations will take place across the Commonwealth.