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New Powerhouse Museum WordPress plugin launched
Seb Chan and the team at Powerhouse Museum in Sydney certainly likes to make sure they stay one step ahead of everyone else in the museums sector, and they’ve proved it once again with the launch of a custom WordPress plugin that interfaces with their collections information through the API (which, of course, they have had up and running for ages).
Here’s a little test.
Two control units from Fleetwork Trainer98/113/1 Control units (2), Fleetwork Trainer components, pupil's course and speed unit & instructor's control panel, metal / alloy / electronic components, commissioned by the Communications School at HMAS Cerberus, Victoria, Australia, made by Research
Womens raincoat designed by Pierre Cardin86/574 Raincoat, womens, plastic / nylon / taffeta, designed by Pierre Cardin, Paris, France, worn by Wiska Listwan, Australia, 1975- 1980
Tin plate toy coal tender from train set85/2587-25 Toy coal tender, from train set, tin plate, made by Meccano, England, c. 1937
Glass plate negative of Lavender Bay with steam train2008/165/1-137 Glass plate negative (1 of 193), Lavender Bay with steam train, glass, photographer possibly Arthur Phillips, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, c. 1910
Glass plate negative of the Como Hotel, Como with Illawarra train line2008/165/1-46 Glass plate negative (1 of 193), view of Como Hotel, Como with Illawarra train line in background, glass, photographer possibly Arthur Phillips, Australia, 1895-1905
Dring & Fage grains rule2010/1/393 Slide rule, Grains Rule, single-sided, open frame, wood / brass, made by Dring & Fage, London, England, c. 1903-1938
Optical projector array from Fleetwork Trainer98/113/2 Optical Projector Array, Fleetwork Trainer component, metal / alloy / electronic components, commissioned by the Communications School, HMAS Cerberus, Victoria, Australia, made by Research Engineers Ltd, London, England, 1966
Training manual for 'Breathalyzer' blood alcohol testing apparatus.2006/8/4 Training manual for blood alcohol testing apparatus, 'Breathalyzer Training Manual II', paper, prepared by Sergeant 2nd Class W E Burns, Breath Analysis Section, NSW Police Department, published by Authority of The New South Wales Commissioner of
Bullock team clearing drains85/1284-982 Photographic negative, bullock team clearing drains with a piece of equipment called a 'delver', glass / gelatin emulsion, photographed by George Bell (attributed), published by Kerry and Co, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1890-1900
Watercolour drawing of the Metropolitan, Sewerage and Drainage Board Building95/258/1 Watercolour drawing, 'Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board Building', paper / ink, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1930-1940
Photograph of parts for grain stripper88/289-213 Photographic glass plate negative, parts for Clyde horsedrawn grain stripper, Clyde Engineering Pty Ltd, Australia, 1900-1940
Anatomical model of a human brainH1704 Anatomical model, human brain, papier-mache / plaster / paint, maker unknown, 1850-1894
'Rainforest' vase by Ola Hoeglund and Marie Simberg- Hoeglund2000/97/1 Vase, 'Rainforest', crystal glass, made by Ola Hoeglund and Marie Simberg- Hoeglund, Nelson, New Zealand, 2000
'Moraine' sofa by Zaha Hadid2005/180/1 Sofa and cover, 'Moraine', polyurethane foam/ leather/ canvas, designed by Zaha Hadid, England, 2000, made by Sawaya & Moroni, Italy, 2004
Training manual for 'Breathalyzer' blood alcohol testing apparatus/2006/8/3 Training manual for blood alcohol testing apparatus, 'Breathalyzer Training Manual I', paper, prepared by Sergeant 2nd Class W E Burns, Breath Analysis Section, NSW Police Department, published by Authority of the The New South Wales Commissioner
Length of toy train track, made by Mettoy85/2577-323 Length of toy train track, tin plate, made by Mettoy, England, 1934-1954
Concept drawings for Sydney suburban trains2006/52/9 Drawings (3), concept renderings for the 4th generation 'Millennium' train and Outer Suburban carriage, paper, made by TDI (Transport Design International) and Design Resource Australia, Crows Nest, New South Wales, Australia, 1997-2001
Servomechanism training equipment2008/182/1 Servomechanism training equipment (2), AC servo system and mechanical gear set Kit 'A', metal / wood / plastic / electronic components, AC servo system designed and made by Servomex Controls Ltd, mechanical gear set designed and made by Feedbac
Photograph of boys marching on the training ship "Sobraon"P1845 Photographic print, albumen, black & white, mounted on card, 'Training Ship "Sobraon." On the March', NSW Government Printer, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1894
Toy train 'Spirit of Progress'85/2589-77 Toy steam locomotive, 'Gold Chief' Victorian Railways' 'Spirit of Progress', 4-6-2, electrically-operated, 0-gauge, metal, made by Maurlyn Manufacturing Pty Ltd, Redfern, NSW, 1951-1957
More automatic tagging tools discovered and tested
I’ve just discovered two more services – Alchemy and Zemanta – and also a couple of extra WordPress plugins to use these and automatically suggest and add tags. One simply uses the Alchemy API, but by far the most advanced I’ve uncovered yet is Simple Tags which pulls in tags from Local Tags (I think that’s a list of tags already used), Yahoo, OpenCalais, Alchemy, Zemanta, and Tag the Net. So here’s a bit more text to test them out, focussed on geographic terms …
Hatfield has been in the papers again this week. It’s where I went to secondary school. I used to cycle 6 miles each way, each day, including the climb up Bell Bar (near Potters Bar) which was about half way from Cuffley.
More OpenCalais – testing, testing!
Advanced warning: this is just a test post for myself, so only read on if you’re interested in the Calais service, and geotagging in particular …
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I’ve also now found and installed the ‘official’ Tagaroo plugin from Calais. Here’s a quick test to see how it works.
Unlike the others it automatically suggests tags and even photos that match, constantly updating as you type. So already I’m seeing loads related to Calais, northern France.
But what if I type an obscure location, such as the tiny hamlet of Windmill, which is just near one of my favourite holiday locations at Trevone, near Padstow. Well, it certainly seems to have recognised something as a location, as it has automatically suggested Cornwall, but frustratingly they are all converted into plain text tags, so I can’t see if it just thinks it is about a windmill, rather than if it has detected that Windmill is a location.
There’s even a drop-down that lets me restrict the types of tag, but the options are just ‘All’, ‘Social’ and ‘Country’. And Country only returns France.
So let’s give it something simpler – I grew up in the village of Cuffley and near there there is a tiny place called Brickendon, which I’m not aware of as meaning anything else! But neither Auto Tagger nor Tagaroo have spotted that one. Shame, I wonder what the data source is that they are using for geography, and how detailed it is?
Oddly the Calais Auto Tagger mentioned in a previous post seems to pull out things slightly differently, especially locations. For example it has actually given me “Cuffley, United Kingdom”.
Oh, and one last thing. If you have Tagaroo and Auto Tagger both installed, it looks like Auto Tagger overrides anything you add from Tagaroo
OpenCalais tagging service and WordPress plugins
I’ve just installed two WordPress Plugins to test out automated tagging systems. I’m also really interested in automated geotagging, but not sure if that’s available. For example, if I say that this post is about London, does it add lat long tags? Could these be used to create a map?
These are the two plugins:
- WP Calais Auto Tagger
- WP Calais Archive Tagger
The autotagger suggested the following for this post (before I entered this sentence of course):
World Wide Web PHP programming language Computing Blog software Content management systems WordPress Information Geographic information systems Web 2.0 Geotagging Tag London,Greater London,United Kingdom London automated tagging systemsI had already added: OpenCalais, tags, tagger, automatic
Yourls self hosted shorturl service
Just discovered a self-hosted php/mysql url shortening tool – Yourls – which is giving me some ideas about a shorturl/permalink service for the museums sector, prompted when Flickr wouldn’t let me either post the full link to an image on the Imperial War Museum collections database, nor let me post a bit.ly or tinyurl shorturl.
Anyway, this is just a test to see how it works, and the WordPress widget to automatically post to Twitter (a bit crazy testing it with a domain the length of catchingtherain.com of course!).