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Catching The Rain

Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley

Category: Technology

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

Sentiment Analysis for Cultural Collection objects – aka how to identify the good stuff

Forgive me if this is an old idea, but I wanted to throw it out there and see if it has any mileage. Sentiment Analysis is a technique widely used in marketing, and especially social media, to get a measure of the popularity of a brand or product. My question Read more …

Technology, 10 Comments
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
16 January 201416 January 2014

Sorting records on oldmapsonline.org by date and scale – a quick greasemonkey script

I was prompted by a tweet from Mia Ridge to have another look at the oldmapsonline.org site. Anything that has maps and history and a slick interface is going to be something I like! But I was struck by the fact that I couldn’t sort the map results that appear in Read more …

Technology, 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 October 201011 March 2011

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 Read more …

Technology, Vintage photos, No Comments

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