Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
An assortment of projects where the focus has been on the front end design, providing sometimes playful, typically rich, visual experiences that showcase the content and encourage users to explore.
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 …
A series of visualisations powered directly from collections metadata or compiled using the Google Vision api, that bring this hidden treasure trove to life.
Visualising the entire dataset from Operation War Diary by time and place in a two minute animation.
The On This Day site allows users to explore content from several open collections based on historic dates.
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.
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!
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.
The Colour Explorer was built as a simple but playful demonstrator to showcase the media metadata filters and colour search developed by Europeana in 2015.
An interactive timeline taking images straight from over 100 different institutions on Flickr Commons using the Flickr API
Possibly my first use of open data, The London Cycle Hire Stats site from 2013 represents an analysis and visualisation of London Cycle Hire (‘Boris Bikes’) usage from October 2011 to Early February 2013.