Last year Seth van Hooland at the Free University Brussels (ULB) approached us to look at how people used and navigated our online collection. A few days ago Seth and his colleague Ruben Verborgh from the University Ghent launched Free Your Metadata – a demonstrator site for showing how even irregular metadata can have valued [...]
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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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Sharing with SepiaTown – historical images re-mapped
October 19th, 2010 3 Comments
Early in the year when I visited Josh Greenberg and the digital team at the New York Public Library, I was told about SepiaTown. One of quite a few ‘Then & Now’ web projects (see also History Pin), SepiaTown puts historic images back on the (Google) map, also using Google Street View to connect the [...]
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Crossing the ditch – integrating our New Zealand objects with Digital NZ
August 26th, 2010 2 Comments
If you use to regularly read this blog then it probably seems like it has been quiet here but in fact we’re still in one of the busiest periods ever. Today, though, some light through the clouds. Our friends at Digital NZ (run by the National Library of New Zealand) switched on New Zealand-related Powerhouse [...]
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Malcolm Tredinnick on some problems with working with our collection dataset
July 5th, 2010 Comments Off
Down at the recent Pycon we were excited to hear that Malcolm Tredinnick had taken the downloadable collection dataset from the Powerhouse and was using it to demonstrate some of the issues with working with (semi-)open datasets. His presentation reveals what every museum knows – the datasets that exist in our collection databases are inherently [...]
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Why Flickr Commons? (and why Wikimedia Commons is very different)
January 25th, 2010 8 Comments
The Powerhouse is coming up to the 2nd anniversary of our joining the Commons on Flickr. Back when we joined there was only the Library of Congress and we trusted that we were making the correct decision back then. (I’ll be blogging an interview with Paula Bray around the time of the anniversary.) A lot [...]
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Downloading, mashing and remixing our collection metadata
November 3rd, 2009 2 Comments
As you may know, we released our collection metadata a little while back as a downloadable archive. It is linked from both the NSW Government as well as the Federal Government‘s Data Catalogues. This has enabled it to be used in the current Mashup Australia contest and related Hack Day events and for the forthcoming [...]
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Some clarifications on our experience with ‘free’ content
August 14th, 2009 1 Comment
Over on the Gov2 blog a comment was posted that asked for more information about our experience at the Powerhouse with ‘giving away content’ for free. I’d be interested to know more about your experience with Flickr and your resulting sales increase. Are these print sales or licensing sales? And are they sales, through your [...]
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Some thoughts: post #GLAM-WIKI 2009
August 9th, 2009 4 Comments
Photography by Paula Bray License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 (Post by Paula Bray) Seb and I have just spent two days at a conference, in the nation’s rather chilly capital that involved a bunch of Wikimedians (wonder what that would be called) and members from the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries and Museum sector) sector. [...]
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Electronic Swatchbook version 2 – lots more public domain swatches, search by colour
July 15th, 2009 3 Comments
We meant to launch our Electronic Swatchbook v2 last year but it got buried in a slew of server upgrades and other projects. But here it is, now with nearly 2000 public domain patterns available for you to use and re-use. There are a whole lot of new swatches some dating as far back as [...]
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