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Catching The Rain

Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley

Category: On the web

15 May 201410 June 2014

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 …

On the web, Technology, 1 Comment
18 February 201418 February 2014

CulturePics – custom images from cultural collections

A few weeks ago I undertook a quick challenge to come up with something to show how cultural collection APIs could be used to very quickly deliver simple tools aimed at reaching far beyond typical audiences, especially in the creative sector. Without much time to spare it had to be Read more …

On the web, Technology, Vintage photos, No Comments
21 January 201122 April 2011

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 Read more …

On the web, Technology, No Comments
18 March 201018 March 2010

Paris 26 Gigapixels – gigapixel image of Paris

I’m always wary of technology for technology’s sake, but not only is this a fantastic technical feat and a high quality image, it’s also delivered via a rather slick interface … Paris 26 Gigapixels – Interactive virtual tour of the most beautiful monuments of Paris.

Photography, On the web, No Comments
30 November 20099 August 2010

Layar augmented reality at Kew

My experiment with Augmented Reality (AR) at Kew has just been featured on the Layar blog … It uses the Porpoise PHP to deliver the xml-based API, and reusues images and content from the www.kew.org/trees website that I managed. It has also had a mention on cnet.co.uk and csmonitor.com

On the web, Technology, No Comments
5 May 200918 March 2010

Google Doodle – Kew Gardens

Google today have a Doodle for Kew Gardens’ 250th birthday, and the Queen is paying a visit.

Plants & gardens, On the web, No Comments

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