museumsandtheweb.com - mashup

Weaving and hacking collections

Paul Stork — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:32:33 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

API

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open data

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Linked Open Data

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mashup

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hacking

Abstract:

In this hands-on workshop we are going to create concepts and use cases based on available online resources. Using the API's of our colleagues we like to research how we can make new experiences for our (online) visitors when combining our joint collections.

We are going to kick off with a short brainstorming session and pick the best ideas to conceptualize. These concepts will be our starting point. Not only will we think and talk about how to create a good user experience out of this, we will start building and implementing it on the spot.

Anyone with an interest in open data can join as long as you are willing to take part in the actual creation of an online experience. We need people who can design, code, write requirements, and people who can conceptualize ideas and curate these. And the good thing is: It won't stop after half a day. We will continue building an online experience during a three day Hackathon during MW2012. Anyone can join in, all skills are needed.

Our goal is to present a joint effort and a concrete result during closing sessions on Saturday. To create a genuine co-operation between institutions and museum professionals, between coders and curators and have some real fun with really great content.

Type:

Workshop - full or half day

Weaving and hacking collections

Authors:

Paul Stork

Kars Veling

Matthijs van der Meulen

Hein Wils

Ebelien Pondaag

Lukas van Driel

Anna Offermans

Accelerating in Flight: Access to a Collection via Flickr

Rich Cherry — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:16:44 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

flickr

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social media

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BPOC

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collaboration

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mashup

Abstract:

In an effort to get more of the Balboa Park Museum’s collections online and accessible to the public, the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) has been leading an effort to efficiently and quickly digitize the wealth of media in the Park museums collection. This demonstration will highlight the success of the San Diego Air and Space Museum (SDASM) to increase visitor visibility and interest in their museum by getting photographs from their archives up on Flickr. After working for ten years to digitize their photography collection one by one, the SDASM archival team of Alan Renga and Katrina Pescador were able to step up those efforts with a new highly specialized rapid capture station, purchased by BPOC as part of its mission to implement new technology to provide increased visitor access and participation. More than 25,000 images have been digitized from the photography collection of the SDASM’s archive using the rapid capture station since January of 2010. In May, the first batch of photographs were uploaded to Flickr and since then more than 100,000 images from the collection have been posted. As a result, this collection has drawn more than three quarters of a million visits, four times the normal traffic to the museum’s site.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Demonstrations IV

Site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives

Authors:

Alan Renga

Cosmic Collections: creating a big bang

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:45 +0000

Ridge, M. (2010). Cosmic Collections: creating a big bang. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.

Uniting the shanty towns - data combining across multiple institutions

jtrant — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:01:03 +0000

Chan, S. (2008). Uniting the shanty towns - data combining across multiple institutions. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2008. Proceedings.