The National Library of Australia’s Trove is one of those projects that it is only after it is built and ‘live in the world’ that you come to understand just how important it is. At its most basic,Trove provides a meta-search of disparate library collections across Australia as well as the cultural collections of the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Collection databases'
Museum collection meets library catalogue: Powerhouse collection now integrated into Trove
November 8th, 2011 12 Comments
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“Do curators dream of electric collection records?” Exploring how the Powerhouse online collection is used
October 8th, 2011 2 Comments
As one of the first of a ‘new style’ of museum online collections, launching several internet generations ago in 2006, the Powerhouse Museum’s collection database has been undergoing a rethink in recent times. Five years is a very long time on the web and not only has the landscape of online museum collections radically changed, [...]
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Making Love Lace – a cross device exhibition catalogue & the return of the QR
July 6th, 2011 6 Comments
Estee Wah has been busy bringing Love Lace, our upcoming contemporary art exhibition, online. She’s been wrangling content and ensuring that the website is able to act as a fully fledged (and expanding) catalogue for the show as well as revealing much of the individual artists’ processes in a behind the scenes section. This exhibition [...]
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Powerhouse Object Name Thesaurus now available via our API!
June 2nd, 2011 2 Comments
Luke Dearnley is at LOD-LAM this week and he and Carlos Arroyo are pleased to publicly announce that the Powerhouse Object Name Thesaurus is now available through our API. The Object Name Thesaurus was developed by the Powerhouse Museum to standardise the terms used to describe its own collection. It was first published in 1995 [...]
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Introducing the alpha of the Museum Metadata Exchange
April 8th, 2011 5 Comments
The Museum Metadata Exchange (MME) is a project that started mid last year (2010) as a collaboration between the Council of Australasian Museum Directors (CAMD) and Museums Australia (MA). Funded by the Australian National Data Services (ANDS), the project is key infrastructure to deliver museum collection-level descriptive (CLD) metadata to the Australian Research Data Commons [...]
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Behind the Powerhouse collection WordPress plugin
January 22nd, 2011 2 Comments
Yesterday we went live with the first version of the Powerhouse Museum collection WordPress plugin. Rather than clutter that launch blogpost up with the backstory and some its implications, here’s the why and how, and, what next. The germination of the WordPress plugin was the aftermath of the Amped Hack Day run by Web Directions [...]
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Powerhouse Museum collection WordPress plugin goes live!
January 21st, 2011 4 Comments
Today the first public beta of our WordPress collection plugin was released into the wild. With it and a free API key anyone can now embed customised collection objects in grids in their WordPress blog. Object grids can be placed in posts and pages, or even as a sidebar widget – and each grid can [...]
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Quick Wikipedia citation code added to collection
January 20th, 2011 4 Comments
Another of the many incremental changes slowly being added to the Museum’s collection database went live today – Wikipedia citation code. You can now find this at the bottom of each object record (for example this Lawrence Hargrave Photographic Print) and if you happen to be editing an article in Wikipedia and need to reference [...]
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