Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
A Street Near You is a personal project, born out of intrigue, created out of frustration, intended as a demonstrator, built in a week, based solely on open data …which reached 240,000 people in three days Conceived as a way of demonstrating the untapped potential of linking First World War Read more …
The work presented here is the result of a small personal project developed to explore the area of impact of collections images on Wikimedia/Wikipedia, using the example of the Imperial War Museums collections. I’ll start with the headline stats that this work has produced and then afterwards you can read Read more …
A series of visualisations powered directly from collections metadata or compiled using the Google Vision api, that bring this hidden treasure trove to life.
Visualising the entire dataset from Operation War Diary by time and place in a two minute animation.
The On This Day site allows users to explore content from several open collections based on historic dates.
The aim of this project was to transform the online display of a fascinating portrait collection of over 16,000 images by analysing each derivative and choosing the ‘best’ one.
This hack falls into the ‘quick and simple’ category, the aim being to see if Storymaps could be used as a very simple tool to visualise collections’ search results by time and place.
Allowing map-based exploration and comparison of War Memorials records from four distinct data sources, and discovery of related content.