Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
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 …
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 …
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 Read more …
Another experimental panorama, this time at the Imperial War Museum. Most of the main attractions are set as highlights, but Microsoft Silverlight is very frustrating in that it doesn’t allow users to hover over something in the scene and find out more. In fact it’s not very good at displaying Read more …
We went down to visit our friends Karen & Ian over the Bank Holiday weekend. As we went to leave it was glorious weather imaginable and it was a wrench to get away, but I had to quickly pop up the hill and shoot an experimental panorama, which I’ve stitched Read more …
A test of the Android WordPress application and postings from my mobile. Neat!