Projects – Catching The Rain

Projects

A Street Near You screengrab

A Street Near You – exploring the local legacy of the First World War

Discovery, Visualisation

A Street Near You is a personal project, born out of intrigue, created out of frustration, intended as a demonstrator, built in a week, based solely on open data …which reached 240,000 people in three days Conceived as a way of demonstrating the untapped potential of linking First World War Read more …

Screengrab of Analysis of Imperial War Museums Collections on en.wikipedia.org taken from http://catchingtherain.com/wikipedia

Use and impact of cultural heritage images on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia

The work presented here is the result of a small personal project developed to explore the area of impact of collections images on Wikimedia/Wikipedia, using the example of the Imperial War Museums collections. I’ll start with the headline stats that this work has produced and then afterwards you can read Read more …

Women's War Work collection

Women’s War Work – uncovering a hidden collection

Discovery, Visualisation

A series of visualisations powered directly from collections metadata or compiled using the Google Vision api, that bring this hidden treasure trove to life.

Animated map of First World War Casualties

Animated heatmap of casualties on the Western Front

Visualising the entire dataset from Operation War Diary by time and place in a two minute animation.

On This Day, 25th January 1917

On This Day – exploring cultural collections through time

Discovery, Visualisation

The On This Day site allows users to explore content from several open collections based on historic dates.

Montage of the Bond of Sacrifice portrait collection before and after improvement

Analysing and enriching a photographic collection with the Google Vision API

Insight, Visualisation

The aim of this project was to transform the online display of a fascinating portrait collection of over 16,000 images by analysing each derivative and choosing the ‘best’ one.

Custom Google Analytics Alerts as sent to Slack

Google Analytics Custom Alerts

A simple, easily configured tool that can monitor page views on your website (e.g. for online collections objects, blog posts, or even shop items) and immediately notify you of unusual spikes in traffic.

Map of National Library of Ireland images from Flickr Commons

National Library of Ireland map of Flickr Commons Images

Discovery, Visualisation

A high res poster sized map overlaid with nearly 2,000 georeferenced images, created in a few hours and now used in an exhibition at the National Library of Ireland!

Science Museum Media Downloader interface

Science Museum Media Downloader

Tools

A simple but powerful tool to bulk extract media and associated metadata using the Science Museum API

Storymaps as a presentation platform for collections’ searches

This hack falls into the ‘quick and simple’ category, the aim being to see if Storymaps could be used as a very simple tool to visualise collections’ search results by time and place.