Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
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 …
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 …
Seb Chan and the team at Powerhouse Museum in Sydney certainly likes to make sure they stay one step ahead of everyone else in the museums sector, and they’ve proved it once again with the launch of a custom WordPress plugin that interfaces with their collections information through the API Read more …
I’ve just discovered two more services – Alchemy and Zemanta – and also a couple of extra WordPress plugins to use these and automatically suggest and add tags. One simply uses the Alchemy API, but by far the most advanced I’ve uncovered yet is Simple Tags which pulls in tags Read more …