Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
Colleagues at Europeana have been working with Wikimedia in the Netherlands, UK, France and Switzerland to develop a powerful toolset that allows bulk importing of publicly available, openly licensed images, audio and video from GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) into Wikimedia. If you want to know why that’s Read more …
Disclaimer: I work for Europeana. But this is still great and I would have blogged about it anyway! I was prompted by a new blog post from my former Kew colleague Anna Saltmarsh – Plants to pixels: enhancing access to Kew’s herbarium collections – to have a closer look at the Read more …
With today’s announcement from Getty of an embeddable viewer, I thought I’d test a few related services and see how they work at both a technical and practical level. This page is just to demonstrate them, and I’ll write up results and opinions after I’ve had a chance to test Read more …
Forgive me if this is an old idea, but I wanted to throw it out there and see if it has any mileage. Sentiment Analysis is a technique widely used in marketing, and especially social media, to get a measure of the popularity of a brand or product. My question Read more …
A few weeks ago I undertook a quick challenge to come up with something to show how cultural collection APIs could be used to very quickly deliver simple tools aimed at reaching far beyond typical audiences, especially in the creative sector. Without much time to spare it had to be Read more …
I was prompted by a tweet from Mia Ridge to have another look at the oldmapsonline.org site. Anything that has maps and history and a slick interface is going to be something I like! But I was struck by the fact that I couldn’t sort the map results that appear in Read more …