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Casgliad y Werin Cymru – People's Collection Wales: Combining Museum, Library, Archive, Broadcaster and User-Generated Content to Create "Wales in a Website"

Tom Pert — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:08:45 +0000

MW2011

Tom Pert, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales; Dafydd James, National Museum Wales, United Kingdom

Abstract

Casgliad y Werin Cymru – The People's Collection Wales – is more than just a website: it is a collaborative and federated programme developed by national institutions to tell the story of a nation from the perspective of its people. In this paper, we will explain the development of this open-source system which integrates material from organisations with very different business models and data structures, and blends it through its API into a set of geo-aware digital cultural heritage resources that make sense to the end-user.

Keywords: Wales,collaborative, open-source, cultural heritage resource

Program Item Reference:

Casgliad y Werin Cymru - People’s Collection Wales: combining museum, library, archive, broadcaster and user-generated content to create “Wales in a website”.

Museum Commons: Tragedy or Enlightened self-interest?

biblio — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:34:59 +0000

Edson, M., & Cherry R. (2010). Museum Commons: Tragedy or Enlightened self-interest?. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2010. Proceedings.

Collaboration and Dark Fiber

Rich Cherry — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:05:59 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Collaboration, Dark Fiber and the Challenges of Deploying Mobile Infrastructure

Keywords:

BPOC

Keywords:

collaborative

Keywords:

network

Keywords:

dark fiber

Keywords:

shared resources

Keywords:

virtualization

Abstract:

The Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) was created to lead technology-focused cooperation between 20 Balboa Park institutions. One of the challenges BPOC quickly uncovered when it began, was a serious limitation to supporting collaboration caused by the lack of IT infrastructure necessary to network the institutions together. As a result, BPOC has installed the infrastructure necessary for a high speed (1GB/second) connection between the organizations, to provide a 100mb internet connection and also to provide a connection to CalREN, the California Research and Education Network to which the vast majority of the state's K-20 educational institutions are connected. The connection to CalREN also provides connectivity to non-California institutions and industry research organizations such as Internet2, high-speed networks in Mexico and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities Networks.

This mini workshop will explore the technology options as they relate to Wide Area Networks (WAN’s), the technical, civil engineering and political challenges that the different options create, a planning checklist for dealing with the challenges as well the reasons that multiple institutions might desire collaborate on a WAN. All of this info will then be reviewed in the context of the Balboa Park WAN Project deployment as well as other museum WAN deployments with failures and successes highlighted.

Type:

Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches

Mini-Workshop on Collaboration and Dark Fiber

Site:

http://www.bpoc.org

Authors:

Rich Cherry

A Walk in the Park: The Balboa Park Online Collaborative 1 Year report

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:33 +0000

Cherry, R. (2010). A Walk in the Park: The Balboa Park Online Collaborative 1 Year report. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.