Museums on the Web UK 2007 was held at the slightly rainy and chilly summer venue of the University of Leciester. Organised by the 24 Hour Museum and Dr Ross Parry with the Museums Computer Group the event was attended by about 100 museum web techies, content creators and policy makers. As a one day [...]
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Hyperlinking collectively shared images – Seadragon/Photosynth
June 8th, 2007 1 Comment
There’s been a lot of discussion on the web about Microsoft’s Photosynth but this demonstration from TED really reveals the real possibilities. The image navigation opportunities offered by Seadragon are quite amazing but as Blaise Aguera y Arcas points out in the short demonstration, what a collective Photosynth experience offers is the ability for one [...]
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M&W07 – Day two: Rjiksmuseum & CHIP
April 13th, 2007 2 Comments
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and several Dutch universities have been working on an exciting collection project which uses ratings and user profiles to recommend art to users. Whilst I was a little sceptical of their ‘ratings’ (1 to 5 stars) as a means of describing art, the recommendation tools and prototype interface were fascinating. Also [...]
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Linden on ‘end of federated search?’ and Google
March 25th, 2007 Comments Off
Greg Linden speculates that Google is pulling back from the notion of federated search. (via O’Reilly) Google instead prefers a “surfacing” approach which, put simply, is making a local copy of the deep web on Google’s cluster. Not only does this provide Google the performance and scalability necessary to use the data in their web [...]
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More on Opensearch (and competitors)
November 1st, 2006 Comments Off
Lorcan Dempsey points to a succinct PDF article comparing Opensearch 1.0, 1.1, SRU and MXG.
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Another plug for Opensearch
October 31st, 2006 Comments Off
As I’ve been speaking to other institutions both here in Australia and overseas I’ve started to realise that more of us should be using Opensearch to allow others (or ourselves) to aggregate our deep content – whilst still retaining full control of said content. I blogged about this ages ago but I think everyone was [...]
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Pay-for-answers : AQA and paid research
August 28th, 2006 2 Comments
AQA (Any Questions Answered)offers a pretty unique service where uses can text (SMS) a question to a group of researchers. How it works is detailed in an interview with its founder Colly Myers in The Register by web realist/skeptic Andrew Orlowski. Colly Myers offers his views on the future of general web searching (falling away [...]
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Search the Powerhouse Museum collection via A9/Opensearch
June 16th, 2006 Comments Off
We’ve hooked our collection search to A9′s Opensearch. So now you can ‘subscribe’ to a search result via RSS. Here is an example search for ’3830′. http://a9.com/3830?a=sB000813VX4
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Meta-Media
April 5th, 2006 Comments Off
There’s a really interesting article here from ctheory.net written by our old mate Lev Manovich that looks at ‘understanding meta-media’ and examines “what new media does to old media?” focusing particularly on the idea of simulation. The article references some great new media works that explore the concept of ‘mapping’ as key framework for undertsanding [...]
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Protected Wiki
September 23rd, 2005 Comments Off
Intersting development in Wiki security/authentication here.
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