As you may know, we released our collection metadata a little while back as a downloadable archive. It is linked from both the NSW Government as well as the Federal Government’s Data Catalogues.
This has enabled it to be used in the current Mashup Australia contest and related Hack Day events and for the forthcoming Apps4NSW [...]
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Downloading, mashing and remixing our collection metadata
November 3rd, 2009 4 Comments
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Some clarifications on our experience with ‘free’ content
August 14th, 2009 5 Comments
Over on the Gov2 blog a comment was posted that asked for more information about our experience at the Powerhouse with ‘giving away content’ for free.
I’d be interested to know more about your experience with Flickr and your resulting sales increase. Are these print sales or licensing sales? And are they sales, through your in-house [...]
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Some thoughts: post #GLAM-WIKI 2009
August 9th, 2009 7 Comments
Photography by Paula Bray
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0
(Post by Paula Bray)
Seb and I have just spent two days at a conference, in the nation’s rather chilly capital that involved a bunch of Wikimedians (wonder what that would be called) and members from the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries and Museum sector) sector. This event [...]
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Electronic Swatchbook version 2 – lots more public domain swatches, search by colour
July 15th, 2009 4 Comments
We meant to launch our Electronic Swatchbook v2 last year but it got buried in a slew of server upgrades and other projects.
But here it is, now with nearly 2000 public domain patterns available for you to use and re-use. There are a whole lot of new swatches some dating as far back as 1837. [...]
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The (Australian) Govt 2.0 Taskforce – introduction and initial thoughts
June 26th, 2009 10 Comments
Well the cat is out of the bag and I’m one of the fifteen members of the Government 2.0 Taskforce! And I’m excited by the possibilities.
Unfortunately I couldn’t make it down to Canberra for the launch at Publicsphere2 but I “watched it live on Twitter“.
So what is the Taskforce doing?
Its work falls into two [...]
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1000th Tyrrell image in the Commons (1265 released in total)
June 4th, 2009 2 Comments
(Bayswater Rd, Darlinghurst, circa 1900)
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(Same location today-ish)
Today we released 24 more images into our pool in the Commons on Flickr. That wouldn’t be such a milestone – we release more each week – but we’ve finally released the 1000th image from the Tyrrell photographic collection.
We’ve now got 1,265 of our images out there [...]
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One year in the Commons on Flickr – statistics and . . . a book!
April 8th, 2009 4 Comments
Today we celebrate one year in the Commons on Flickr.
Since April 8 last year we’ve uploaded 1,171 photos (382 geotagged) from four different archival photographic collections. These have been viewed 777,466 times! For photographs that had been either hidden away on our website (the original 270 Tyrrell photographs on our website were viewed around [...]
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Powerhouse collection documentation goes Creative Commons
April 2nd, 2009 22 Comments
We’re happy to announce that as of today all our online collection documentation is available under a mix of Creative Commons licenses. We’ve been considering this for a long time but the most recent driver was the Wikipedia Backstage tour.
Collection records are now split into two main blocks of text.
The first section is the relatively [...]
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Working with Wikipedia – Backstage Pass at the Powerhouse Museum
April 2nd, 2009 7 Comments
I like the notion that Noam Cohen raises in his recent New York Times article where Wikipedia is compared to a city.
It is this sidewalk-like transparency and collective responsibility that makes Wikipedia as accurate as it is. The greater the foot traffic, the safer the neighbourhood. Thus, oddly enough, the more popular, even controversial, an [...]
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Attempts at quantifying social behaviour in the Commons
February 22nd, 2009 Comments Off
Over at the fantastic Indicommons blog there has been a flurry of activity around generating data from the various collections in the Commons on Flickr.
Patrick Peccatte initially posted on his blog a set of figures extracted using the Flickr API across the institutions in the Commons. Patrick has reworked these figures a little and they’ve [...]
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