Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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
Google today have a Doodle for Kew Gardens’ 250th birthday, and the Queen is paying a visit.