Well here’s an alpha release of something that we’ve been working on forever (well, almost 2 years). It is called About NSW and is a bit of a Frankenstein creation of different data sets mashed together by a sophisticated backend. The project began with an open-ended brief to be a cross-sectorial experiment in producing new [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Semantic Web'
Introducing About NSW – maps, census visualisations, cross search
September 2nd, 2009 18 Comments
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More powerful browsers – Mozilla Labs Ubiquity
August 27th, 2008 1 Comment
Mozilla Labs has released Aza Raskin’s Ubiquity in an early alpha form. This is a glimpse into a future world of browser technology which brings notions of the semantic web directly into the browser and connects the dots between websites – not from a provider perspective, but from a user perspective.
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza [...]
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The museum APIs are coming – some thoughts on interoperability
May 28th, 2008 6 Comments
At MW08 there was the beginnings of a push amongst the technically oriented for the development of APIs for museum data, especially collections. Driven in part by discussions and early demonstrations of semantic web applications in museums, the conceptual work of Ross Parry, and the presence of Eric Miller and Brian Sletten of Zepheria; Aaron [...]
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MW2008 – Data shanty towns, cross-search and combinatory approaches
April 19th, 2008 1 Comment
One of the popular sessions at MW2008 in Montreal was a double header featuring Frankie Roberto and myself talking about different approaches to data combining across multiple institutions.
Data combining was a bit of a theme this year with Mike Ellis, Brian Kelly and others talking mashups; Ross Parry, Eric Miller and Brian Sletten all [...]
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