If you were at the National Library of Australia’s annual meeting a while back then you might have spotted Thom Hickey from OCLC mentioning that the Powerhouse Museum has started to use the WorldCat Identities to connect people in the collection to their identity records and library holdings in WorldCat.
This is now public in an [...]
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OPAC – Connecting collections to WorldCat Identities
December 7th, 2008 2 Comments
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DigitalNZ – API access to New Zealand collections launches
December 2nd, 2008 4 Comments
One of the best things I saw at the National Digital Forum in Auckland last week was DigitalNZ. Being a Kiwi myself, I am immensely proud that New Zealand has leapt forward and produced a federated collection product that aggregates and then allows access through a web interface and an open API. That it has [...]
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A web citation tool – dealing with impermanent references
July 9th, 2008 5 Comments
We’re all working hard to ensure that our own content is identified with persistent URLs – a referrer that will stand the test of time – but often when we are writing a paper we need to refer to someone else’s URL, most of which are not designed to be permanent.
Traditionally when we reference something [...]
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Collaborative collective classificiation – BBC Labs on using Wikipedia as metadata
June 14th, 2008 1 Comment
Chris Sizemore at the BBC’s Radio Labs demonstrates an experiment in automated metadata, much akin to Open Calais.
Sizemore has taken Wikipedia and has built a simple web application that uses Wikipedia to disambiguate entities in a block of text and suggest broad categories for the content. Because Wikipedia has broad coverage of topics and deep [...]
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24 hours later – Powerhouse on the Commons on Flickr
April 9th, 2008 4 Comments
The first 24 hours of our presence on Commons on Flickr has been fascinating. I wrote about the launch yesterday but now let’s take a look at what has happened over night.
In short, we’ve been excited by the response. Here’s some quick figures.
Plenty of views (4777), and stacks of tags (175) – in such a [...]
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OPAC2.0 – OpenCalais meets our museum collection / auto-tagging and semantic parsing of collection data
March 31st, 2008 3 Comments
Today we went live with another one of the new experimental features of our collection database – auto-generation of tags based on semantic parsing.
Throughout the Museum’s collection database you will now find, in the right hand column of the more recently acquired objects (see a quick sample list), a new cluster of content titled “Auto-generated [...]
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Flickr Commons – mass exposure of historical images
January 17th, 2008 4 Comments
As a lot of museums (and libraries) have been using Flickr in lightweight ways for various purposes from image storage to building community engagement for quite a while, it is exciting to see a new formal collaborative project between Flickr and a major institution launch.
Flickr Commons is a project between Flickr and the US Library [...]
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UK Museums on the Web 2007 full report (Leicester)
June 24th, 2007 8 Comments
Museums on the Web UK 2007 was held at the slightly rainy and chilly summer venue of the University of Leciester. Organised by the 24 Hour Museum and Dr Ross Parry with the Museums Computer Group the event was attended by about 100 museum web techies, content creators and policy makers.
As a one day conference [...]
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Hyperlinking collectively shared images – Seadragon/Photosynth
June 8th, 2007 1 Comment
There’s been a lot of discussion on the web about Microsoft’s Photosynth but this demonstration from TED really reveals the real possibilities. The image navigation opportunities offered by Seadragon are quite amazing but as Blaise Aguera y Arcas points out in the short demonstration, what a collective Photosynth experience offers is the ability for one [...]
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M&W07 – Day two: Rjiksmuseum & CHIP
April 13th, 2007 2 Comments
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and several Dutch universities have been working on an exciting collection project which uses ratings and user profiles to recommend art to users. Whilst I was a little sceptical of their ‘ratings’ (1 to 5 stars) as a means of describing art, the recommendation tools and prototype interface were fascinating. Also [...]
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