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Catching The Rain

Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley

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4 December 2018

My ‘viral’ moment – A Street Near You & the power of linking First World War data sources

A Street Near You started as an idea to demonstrate the potential of combining and enhancing large datasets focused on the First World War. Three weeks after its launch on 9 November it had: had 435,000 unique visitors been tweeted over 3,600 times with links to the site (one tweet Read more …

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6 March 201428 July 2020

Embeddable images from external sources – a few tests

With today’s announcement from Getty of an embeddable viewer, I thought I’d test a few related services and see how they work at both a technical and practical level. This page is just to demonstrate them, and I’ll write up results and opinions after I’ve had a chance to test Read more …

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16 October 201011 March 2011

More OpenCalais – testing, testing!

Advanced warning: this is just a test post for myself, so only read on if you’re interested in the Calais service, and geotagging in particular … — I’ve also now found and installed the ‘official’ Tagaroo plugin from Calais.  Here’s a quick test to see how it works. Unlike the Read more …

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23 February 20093 March 2009

Hull Trawler Challenge

Just a quick ‘heads up’ to say that on Thursday I’ll be launching the Hull Trawler Challenge to tie in with the Who Do You Think You Are? Live exhibition at London Olympia, where I’ll be helping out Pauline Prynne on her stand. Here’s a little preview…

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  • A Street Near you – a case study in linking disparate datasets 19 June 2020
  • Collecting and displaying contextual tweets for cultural heritage records 17 January 2020
  • My ‘viral’ moment – A Street Near You & the power of linking First World War data sources 4 December 2018
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