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Join in our ‘cosmic collections’ mashup competition

I originally posted this on the Science Museum developers blog, filed under: competition,cosmosandculture,mashups — mia @ 2:20 pm

I won’t repeat the information already available on the Cosmic Collections launch event, and I’ll simply link to the page containing more information on judging criteria, prizes and timelines…  I just want to use this post to encourage you to sign up for the launch and head over to the competition wiki to find some team mates to turn your brilliant mashup idea into a working website.

Science Museum posts on collections online and more, 2009

I originally posted this set of posts on the Science Museum developers blog.

September 10, 2009: Working out collections online – your questions?

Filed under: collections,design,requestforcomment — mia @ 8:59 pm

I’ve been slowly putting together a list of research questions to try and tackle as I re-work our collections online (with our very own blogger, the transport curator David Rooney) and the ‘Online Stuff‘ section.  I’ll write up the process and my ideas as I go, but in the meantime – what’s your number one question about presenting museum collections online?  It could be ‘does x work better than y’, or ‘do people really want z’, or anything that’s been hanging around at the back of your brain. Leave a comment below or tweet @mia_out.

And speaking of collections online, check out the V&A’s Collections Search, just out in beta today.  There’s so much to explore and the interface is a delight.  Congratulations to all involved!

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September 3, 2009: Save the date – Cosmos and Culture launch event

Filed under: competition,cosmosandculture,mashups — mia @ 6:02 pm

A very quick post to let you know that we’ve set a date for the launch of the Cosmos and Culture website competition I’ve mentioned earlier.

The launch event will be held at the Science Museum on Saturday, October 24, 2009.  We’re planning a curator’s talk about the Cosmos and Culture exhibition, and we’re looking at ways to help people meet potential team mates – some kind of ‘hack matching’ thing.  We’ve made it a Saturday so that most people should be able to come, and it’ll be open to anyone.  More details to follow as we work them out!

At this stage, the competition submission date will be November 28, 2009, and we’re aiming to have the winning website(s) live to the public by mid-December.

If you’ve got any questions, leave a comment on this post, or tweet with the hash tag #coscultcom.

April 24, 2009: Some on-going work on museum APIs

Filed under: API,design,requestforcomment — mia @ 10:20 pm

Just a quick note to say we haven’t abandoned this blog, but at the moment I’ve been concentrating on working out issues around schemas/formats, content, and functions for re-usable and interoperable cultural heritage data on a wiki.

There’s a list of things you can do if you work in a museum or are a developer interested in using museum data – jump in!

Competitions using APIs – any resources

I originally posted this on the Science Museum developers blog, filed under competition, mashups, requestforcomment.

The original impetus for creating this blog was to provide somewhere to talk about our plans, ask for feedback, and generally make the process of running a mashup competition using a set of object data created for an exhibition really transparent.

The project is close to signed-off, and I’ll go into more detail then, but in the meantime, here’s a post I sent to the MCG (museums computer group) email list:

Does anyone have good examples, bad examples, personal experience, whatever, on competition models, licensing, preservation, timelines, platforms, other public domain data sources, visualisation tools, etc? You can email me offlist if that’s easier, I can post a compiled list back here.

I was at JISC’s recent dev8D event and got some good ideas there, and I’m happy to share the research I’ve already done if anyone is interested.