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Catching The Rain

Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley

Category: Technology

16 October 201011 March 2011

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? Read more …

Technology, Website News, No Comments
13 August 2010

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 Read more …

Technology, No Comments
8 August 20109 August 2010

Imperial War Museum panorama

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 …

Photoblog, Techniques, Technology, Things to see & do, No Comments
20 January 201021 January 2015

IIIF Test

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Technology, Vintage photos, 1 Comment
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

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