Museums and the machine-processable web

register your interest

Page history last edited by Jo Eaton 1 mo ago

You don't have to do this - you can just get stuck in and start contributing - but it's nice to know who's here and what they're interested in.

Not everyone who's interested will be able to participate actively, so feel free to add your name, contact details and a summary of your areas of interest here and we'll keep you up to date.

To extend this template, you can either click within the table and use the "Row > Insert Row" command, or use "Table Properties" to expand the table as desired.

I'm interested!

Name	Works for	Email	Interests	Other Info
Mia Ridge	Science Museum/NMSI	firstname.lastname at sciencemuseum org uk	Specifically, getting a first go at a public-facing API live for our 'Cosmos and Culture' gallery; generally access to online collections, getting things done in ways that make geeks happy and work with positive change in organisations while doing things for our audiences.	blogging at http://www.openobjects.org.uk/ On twitter @miaridge, or @mia_out for events
Nate Solas	Walker Art Center	firstname.lastname at walkerart org	Most likely trying to duplicate the Brooklyn API. Also using Opensearch / media rss, and OAI/PMH - at this point all internally, project launches in May.	Rarely blogging at http://blogs.w
Andy Neale	DigitalNZ	firstname.lastname at natlib.govt.nz	Interested in helping others get their APIs up-and-running. Also interested in seeing how a developer community can come together around these APIs	http://www.digitalnz.org/developer @andyhkn
Virginia Gow	DigitalNZ	firstname.lastname at natlib.govt.nz	Non technical - helping convince content providers / collection owners of the benefits of APIs; and sharing experience of this.	http://www.digitalnz.org/contributor @Vexus_Nexus
Mike Ellis	Eduserv	firstname.lastname at gmail com	I'm still here :-) and still very much interested in the cultural heritage space and how to get content out of museums to the world of developers and (one day) real people, too. I'm particularly passionate about UX and EASY programmatic access (i.e REST, OpenSearch, RSS).	bloggage at http://electronicmuseum.org.uk also some more museum / API related stuff at: http://mashedmuseum.org.uk
Thomas Tunsch	Nat. Mus. Berlin	th.lastname at smb.spk-berlin.de	MuseumsWiki, Semantic Web and Wikis, Stewardship and Cultural Memory Organizations in the Digital Age
Mark Matienzo	New York Public Library	firstname at lastname.org	Linked Data; Persistent identifiers/cool URIs; shared design patterns and schemas with other institutions in the cultural heritage sector (libraries & museums)	http://matienzo.org/ blog: http://thesecretmirror.com/ @anarchivist on twitter
Shelley Bernstein	Brooklyn Museum
Richard Urban	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul Rowe	Vernon Systems	firstname at vernonsystems.com	Building a public API to data in our CMS: eHive. Looking to support external sites built on live and harvested data from the system, including the www.nzmuseums.co.nz website and Digital New Zealand projects. Primarily interested in Rest based APIs, OAI-PHM harvesting and Open Search.	http://ehive.com @armchair_caver on twitter @ehive on twitter
Jo Eaton	DigitalNZ	firstname.lastname at natlib.govt.nz	Running HackFests, helping out the developer and producer community.	http://digitalnz.org @starlajo @digitalnz
You!

Archival list of original contributors

This is a re-purposed wiki, so to avoid confusion about who was involved in the previous incarnation and who's around for the current, I'd made a new 'people who are involved page' - this page. Below is an archival list of the original contributors to this wiki so you have a sense of who created earlier content. If you're interested in contributing or leaving some contact details for the conversation that's happening now (2009), edit the table above. If you were involved previously and are still up for it, add yourself to the table above too cos we're not making any assumptions.

Back in the day:

Mike Ellis (Eduserv)
Seb Chan (Powerhouse Museum)
Mia Ridge (Museum of London)
Dan Zambonini (Box UK)
Ross Parry (University of Leicester)
Jeremy Ottevanger (Museum of London)
Tony Crockford (Consultant)
Frankie Roberto (Rattle)
Jim O'Donnell (Maritime Museum)
Paul Walk (UKOLN)
Fiona Romeo (Maritime Museum)
Stephen Pope (Eduserv)
Matthew Cock (British Museum)

Comments (9)

There's also a list of previous contributors at http://museum-api.pbwiki.com/contributors

Welcome Virginia! It sounds like you can make really useful contributions.

And it's good to see you're still here, Mike :)

Thomas, the Remarks at http://museums.wikia.com/wiki/Stewardship_and_Cultural_Memory_Organizations_in_the_Digital_Age#Museums are interesting, particularly the 'validation/evaluation/review process' cycle for museums accepting user-generated content. Do you know of any museums putting that into practice?

Contributors and 'register your interest' pages merged - hopefully no more confusion.

Mia, these remarks are part of the conversation and discussion during the "Friday Afternoon Seminar". Because Wikipedia has to deal with a lot of input from "unknown" authors, their model of the validation/evaluation/review process could be helpful for museums as well. But I don't know any practical use in museums though.

Thanks for putting that in context.

The Berlin museums have such fabulous collections, are they thinking about releasing them in any kind of machine-accessible way?

They do already in the "BAM-Portal" (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAM-Portal) using the "museumdat" standard (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museumdat).

Cool, translating sites are blocked in the office but I'll put those pages through babelfish tonight.

Welcome Jo!

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