ABC Innovation has launched their Sydney Sidetracks project. This is a lovely experiment in developing a mobile heritage application which takes some of the archives of ABC TV and Radio and combines them with static imagery and research from the cultural heritage partners – Powerhouse Museum, State Library of NSW, National Film & Sound Archives, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Geotagging & mapping'
ABC Innovation’s Sidetracks – a mobile heritage pilot featuring some Powerhouse content
November 11th, 2008 3 Comments
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Picnic08 – my presentation in the Open Museum sessions / Open Museum part one
September 29th, 2008 Comments Off
Picnic is a large ‘creativity’ conference held annually in Amsterdam. I’ve been here as a guest of n8 talking about the notion of ‘open museums’. Here is the second set of notes (with only a minor cleanup for the sake of timeliness) which were taken during the Open Museum sessions on Day Two. (More notes [...]
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Dan Hill makes a modernism in Australia map for Modern Times (or interesting things clever people do when they have some spare time)
September 2nd, 2008 3 Comments
Dan Hill from Arup and the author of the wonderful City of Sound blog wrote a review of the Powerhouse’s Modern Times exhibition. In his criticism of the exhibition he wondered where the extra-exhibition content was – especially given the perfect fit between the content of the exhibition and specific places and sites. He describes [...]
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Flickr meets Google Street View – Paul Hagon’s Then & Now (or interesting things clever people do with your data #6247)
August 27th, 2008 6 Comments
A week or so ago Paul Hagon got in touch with me to say he’d done something really cool with our geo-coded historical images in the Commons on Flickr. In what he describes as “about 30 minutes of coding” he had taken a KML feed from our Tyrrell photos in the Commons on Flickr and [...]
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Commons on Flickr – a report, some concepts and a FAQ – the first 3 months from the Powerhouse Museum
July 21st, 2008 9 Comments
The first three months of having images from the Tyrrell Photographic Collection in the Commons on Flickr have been very interesting. We launched on April 8 with 200 images and have been adding more each week since. At the 12 week mark we had 600 photos uploaded, mostly location photography with just under 50% geocoded. [...]
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Some new technologies talked about at the Horizon.au Inaugural Meeting – July 2008
July 10th, 2008 3 Comments
It has been an interesting day down in Melbourne brainstorming many of the technologies that might impact on the higher education sector in the next 5 years. This brainstorming is forming the basis of the upcoming Horizon.Au Report – a version of the Horizon Report tailored specifically for the Australian and New Zealand community. The [...]
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The Commons on Flickr: finding the Mosman Bay Falls
June 30th, 2008 Comments Off
Whilst we are collating the data to report on the Museum’s first three months in the Commons on Flickr, I’ll share one of the best stories to come from the project for us so far – the story of finding the Mosman Bay Falls. Amongst our photographs we found two images simply titled ‘Mosman Bay [...]
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Mobile augmented heritage reality
May 28th, 2008 Comments Off
It shouldn’t take much imagination to see the enormous potential afforded by this prototype project coming out of Germany via Japan – Enkin. Built on Google’s Android mobile platform (for which, it should be pointed out, no commercially available devices exist), Enkin looks amazing, even as a prototype. David Bearman has written recently about the [...]
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Commons on Flickr – one month later
May 6th, 2008 3 Comments
Our experiment with the Commons on Flickr continues and barring a few hours delay we have managed to keep to our promise of 50 new images a week. We’re up to 400 images now with the most recent 50 going live this morning. 158 of these have been geotagged. Some statistics: – we’ve been added [...]
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MW2008 – Data shanty towns, cross-search and combinatory approaches
April 19th, 2008 1 Comment
One of the popular sessions at MW2008 in Montreal was a double header featuring Frankie Roberto and myself talking about different approaches to data combining across multiple institutions. Data combining was a bit of a theme this year with Mike Ellis, Brian Kelly and others talking mashups; Ross Parry, Eric Miller and Brian Sletten all [...]
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