Latest thoughts and experiments
My ‘viral’ moment – A Street Near You & the power of linking First World War data sources
A Street Near You started as an idea to demonstrate the potential of combining and enhancing large datasets focused on the First World War. Three weeks after its launch on 9 November it had: had 435,000 unique visitors been tweeted over 3,600 times with links to the site (one tweet Read more …
Representing the ‘average’ soldier from the First World War
How this came about Back in January 2018 I posted some of the image-based work I had been doing on Imperial War Museum’s Bond of Sacrifice collection. As part of this I sent out a tweet with a simple animation. As a result I got chatting to Giuseppe Sollazzo (@puntofisso) Read more …
Linking collections – aiding discovery through Europeana
This blog post supports an ignite talk given at the Europeana AGM, Riga, November 2016 (slides) Quick link: install Chrome extension demonstrator Having worked for two years at Europeana, but now working for Imperial War Museums, a data provider, I wanted to ask the question: What can data providers get back from Europeana, Read more …
Europeana plugins and embedding tools – test page
This post is a test page for various independently developed WordPress plugins that include Europeana driven functionality. 1. CHContext plugin Sidebar results (see right) displayed based on the page tags (‘kitten’) using the CHContext plugin 2. DPLA & Europeana search plugin Sidebar search box widgets (see right) created with DPLA & Europeana Read more …
GLAMwiki Toolset
Colleagues at Europeana have been working with Wikimedia in the Netherlands, UK, France and Switzerland to develop a powerful toolset that allows bulk importing of publicly available, openly licensed images, audio and video from GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) into Wikimedia. If you want to know why that’s Read more …
Testing the Europeana Search Widget
Disclaimer: I work for Europeana. But this is still great and I would have blogged about it anyway! I was prompted by a new blog post from my former Kew colleague Anna Saltmarsh – Plants to pixels: enhancing access to Kew’s herbarium collections – to have a closer look at the Read more …