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Solr to Google Earth

2012-01-25T21:36:00.017Z

This is a basic how-to you can probably find done better elsewhere, but since I didn't find all the bits in one place myself I thought I may as well put this up. The task: show query results from...

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Three years with Spinal Muscular Atrophy III: one parent’s take

2011-12-22T00:00:00.023Z

Since people reading this post are probably not regular readers of ths blog (who is?), a quick word of warning: I don't do concise. I could have split it into multiple posts but that's just cheating,...

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New IWM websites pt.III: the, um, website

2011-11-07T21:25:00.010Z

So, as on the evening before we switch our new website over from beta to fully live status I finally get round to the website part of this series of blog posts. In part 1 we did brand, e-commerce and...

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New IWM websites pt.II: Collections and licensing

2011-11-02T22:13:00.006Z

This is the second post about our "big bang" and the things we launched on October 4th. In the first post I talked about the new brand, e-commerce, and hosting. Here I'll talk a bit about collections...

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On [that] day, 4th October 2011... pt 1

2011-10-25T23:06:00.006+01:00

Tuesday October 4th was a big one for the Imperial War Museum. We in the New Media department had been working towards it for well over a year, but several other parts of IWM also had first-night...

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SOAPhar, so good

2011-10-21T13:16:00.006+01:00

All of a sudden video and sound on our new beta site, streamed from our DAMS, stopped working this week. We embed these using a (currently) private oEmbed service which gets its data from a SOAP...

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Flash 10.2 on Android phones with ARM: partial success

2011-10-16T11:38:00.005+01:00

Imagine my disappointment and annoyance and slight feeling of miss-selling* when I discovered that my otherwise lovely new Android phone (a Samsung Galaxy Ace / S5830) couldn't install Adobe...

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Europeana's Data Exchange Agreement: more than just a licensing change

2011-09-23T23:19:00.010+01:00

The announcement yesterday that the Europeana Foundation had officially adopted the new Europeana Data Exchange Agreement may have passed you by, but it seems to me to be a vital moment in...

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Back to the start

2011-07-09T12:26:00.011+01:00

I've been reading a hell of a lot of documents around Europeana lately as I write the case study for my thesis. And I mean a hell of a lot, many scores of them, including all sorts of work plans,...

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The LOD-LAM star system....

2011-06-25T10:53:00.004+01:00

....is not in a galaxy far far away, although I believe it came out of San Francisco so that may not be too much of a stretch. The recent LOD-LAM workshop there on the question of Linked Open Data in...

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Hack4Europe London, by your oEmbedded reporter

2011-06-09T22:18:00.021+01:00

I spent today at the London edition of Hack4Europe, held at the British Library. It was co-hosted by the BL, Culture Grid/Collections Trust and Europeana, and it one of 4 such hackdays around Europe...

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What are they building in there?

2011-04-29T12:19:00.022+01:00

I started this weeks ago and have decided I should just get it out there rather than finish it! That's the main lesson I've mis-learned from agile, although I've mis-learned lots more besides. The...

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links wot caught my eye #6

2011-03-02T14:17:00.012Z

Transcribing handwritten documents. A very useful compilation of projects using digitised handwritten documents, including some fine examples of how transcription has been done and of technology you...

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links wot caught my eye #5

2011-03-01T22:41:00.011Z

Digital linguistics, API news and some conferences New insights into the 1641 Irish Rebellion revealed (AHRC) and more (Past Horizons) A nice example of what digital analysis of texts now makes...

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links wot caught my eye, #4 of n

2011-02-23T11:14:00.005Z

Augmented Reality Field Trips & the 150th Anniversary of the U.S. Civil War - ReadWriteWeb. For us, the start of the First World War is the big looming anniversary, but in the US the Civil War is...

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links wot...#3 of n

2011-02-18T19:03:00.006Z

OK not a lot in this one but I may as well get it out there. Whither social search? O'Reilly Radar is getting together with Bing to cover the future of search, which they promise to cover much more...

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links wot...#2 of n

2011-02-16T14:28:00.005Z

OK here's another quick blast of stuff that's worth a glance: Easy and Cheap Authoring for the Microsoft Kinect with Open Exhibits - Ideum Yet again, cool stuff from Ideum. Their core OpenExhibits...

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links wot caught my eye lately. Number 1 in a series of n>=1

2011-02-16T13:29:00.004Z

Managing the Flow - the Social Data Flow RWW on Alfreso's approach to managing the gushing torrent of social data. "Content is the conversation". "Alfresco's push is also part of its strategic...

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When should I give a toss about open source-i-ness?

2010-11-27T11:18:00.018Z

Open source, or just the assurance of knowing there’s a fire exit nearby? What's more important to a museum? I've never really got into the debate about open source software because, well, I can't...

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The Mashificator: comments please!

2010-11-04T12:41:00.005Z

Here's a quick post to mention the thing I've spent some evenings on recently that, for want of a halfway decent name, I called the Mashificator. If you've got any comments on it, here's where to...

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Open Culture 2010 ruminations #2: Europeana, UGC and the API, plus a bit of "what are we here for?"

2010-10-18T14:22:00.008+01:00

OK here's a relatively quick one: there was lots of discussion at Open Culture 2010 about user-generated content, and (praise be!) lots about the API. Where I see a gap is in the link between these...

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Open Culture 2010 ruminations #1: Linked Data

2010-10-18T12:33:00.013+01:00

I just came back from the Europeana plenary conference, Open Culture 2010, in Amsterdam. Before the conference I went to meetings of Working Party 1 (Users) and WP3 (Technical), and at all three...

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Internet Archive and the URL shortener question

2010-10-03T17:17:00.009+01:00

There's been a bit of chat lately about the risks of URL shorteners, prompted I think partly by the arrival of Google's goo.gl service. The Guardian covers the basic argument here but it's the...

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No decisions without value/s

2010-08-21T12:20:00.027+01:00

I was getting hot under the collar the other day listening to an interview with some religious type who was upset by the decision to prevent a Catholic charity from excluding same-sex couples from...

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Posted elsewhere: Pecker up, Buttercup

2010-04-11T12:56:00.002+01:00

I was kindly invited to contribute a post to the Museum Computer Group's "This week in cultural heritage online" series. I came up with Pecker up, Buttercup, an attempt to highlight some of the...

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