Following the success of the first 'Linking museums: machine-readable data in cultural heritage'

meetup (original announcement, write-up and attendees), another meetup will be held in London for people interested in the applications of linked data, microformats, RDFa (etc) for museums and the cultural heritage sector.

Date: Monday, September 27, 7:30 - 10pm-ish.

Venue: Shooting Star pub, London.

The Shooting Star is at 125-129 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7JF (very near Liverpool Street Station). The 'gallery' is reserved for Mia for 7:30pm. The pub serves food, directions at http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub785.php

I've chosen this date because there's a bunch of linked data stuff in London that month, so hopefully people will be feeling inspired, and particularly because Web science: A new frontier is on September 27 - 28.

Why? Getting developers who want to use museum data together with museum technologists helps create a shared understanding of what data is useful, and how it could be used.

Who? This event is for you if you're interested in publishing and sharing data about their museums and collections through technologies such as linked data and microformats.

Theme? Good question - got any suggestions or burning issues?

Mia: perhaps something like 'what's needed to make your museum mashable', with possible topics including data structures/formats, licensing, copyright, images, documentation and examples, etc. It kinda assumes that the answer to 'why linked data' is 'to make your museum mashable' but maybe that's not a bad thing.

Structure? Pretty informal. Last time we broke out into smaller groups to discuss various use cases. If we do that again, it'd be good to allow time for each group to report back - this also gives people a chance to move around between discussions.

Find out more? Leave a comment below, or tweet @mia_out.