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Cool stuff made with cultural heritage APIs
Page history last edited by Mia 6 mos ago
A page where people can add in links. Real examples and demonstrations are good.
- Brooklyn Museum has an Application Gallery published on our website that details each application as it's developed and where to find it. You can also subscribe to our API News area via RSS and applications are annouced there as well.
- Brooklyn Museum also highlights more in-depth information about applications and interviews with Developers in the API tag of our blog and this tag is also availiable via RSS.
- Brooklyn Museum API: the iPhone app
- From their interview with the developer: "In my mind, there are few things that inspire people to learn like museums and the web do. ... Once I saw what the [Brooklyn Museum] API allowed, it seemed like an opportunity to create something that people would enjoy. The key to invention in this field is to build things that people don’t realize they will use.
- Because all the content is pulled from the API, it is a very lightweight app that will be convenient for users to update. When the iPhone 3.0 OS goes public in June, we are planning a much more exciting geotagging experience, because the built-in mapping is making a great leap forward. Also we are interested in allowing users to tag items in the collection, expand the browsing options, etc. The main point I want to emphasize is that this is only the beginning, and we are planning to expand the application as the API evolves."
- DigitalNZ has a Widget Gallery where we publish apps made using the DigitalNZ API as well as widgets produced by end-users using the DigitalNZ customised search widget builder. The DigitalNZ API includes museums and cultural heritage institutions, as well as other content sources.
- Museum Pipes has some great examples of the possibilities available to non-programmers and a GUI interface.
- Museum Victoria (Australia) has discussed how they could use APIs for their community collections project, Collectish in this project blog post, World Collections: "The fundamental problem with trying to create a mashup with Museum collections is that there are very few that have exposed their collection database via an API or an OpenSearch feed. However quite a few have built some sort of mechanism to browse their collections online which means that we can query them indirectly using the Google API".
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Comments (4)
Mia said
at 5:01 pm on Apr 26, 2009
I wonder if something like NINES Collex could work with content published via an API? http://nines.org/news/?p=7
Mia said
at 11:32 pm on Apr 27, 2009
Not cultural heritage, but a good pointer to the possibilities: Building a local news mashup with Twitter, TwitterFeed, Delicious, Yahoo! Pipes, Ruby and RSS http://adrianshort.co.uk/2009/03/15/311/
Mia said
at 10:59 am on May 4, 2009
Virginia, do you have a sense of which widgets have caught people's imaginations?
Mia said
at 3:57 pm on May 4, 2009
Another hit and run comment while I'm meant to be doing other things:
NPRbackstory: Finding value in news archives through automation
"It was from an automated Twitter account called NPRbackstory, a project by a man named Keith Hopper. Keith is a project manager at Public Interactive, a division of NPR, and NPRbackstory is an intriguing experiment in getting value out of one of the most overlooked assets any established news organization has: its archives.
The link in the Borel tweet is to a brief piece NPR’s Noah Adams did on the jockey two years ago, after he’d won his first Kentucky Derby. The genius of NPR Backstory is that it took no human intervention to create that tweet: the code behind it automatically detected that lots of people were suddenly searching for information about Calvin Borel, searched NPR’s archives for any Borel-related stories, found one, and posted a link to Twitter."
http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/05/nprbackstory-finding-value-in-news-archives-through-automation/
Imagine that done with museum records - could be way cool.
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