Linking Museums II: write-ups


Notes from the Linking Museums II meetup on September 27, 2010, London.

 

Initial (vague) notes by Mia but please feel free to edit and add your notes, or comment on the page if that's easier for you.


Who was there?

James (Kew), @jamesinealing

Jonty @Jonty

Paul Miller @PaulMiller

Greg Hadfield @greghadfield

Richard Boulton @rboulton

Joe Padfield (National Gallery) @JoePadfield

Jo Pugh (Nat. Archives) @mentionthewar

Jim O'Donnell @pekingspring

Mia (Science Museum), @mia_out

 

What was discussed?

 

Where should this stuff live?

Is the wiki the best place for people to share stuff, think aloud, get feedback and work out what 'best practice' looks like?  What do you think?


Related: what's the best way to push notifications at people - twitter, mailing list?  What do you think?

 

In more detail - where should these discussions and beta work live?  I know the wiki could do with a tidy-up generally, but we could also move to another platform if that'd be more usable.  Joe has stuff on another, password-protected wiki about work he's done that he could put somewhere public, I'd love to share bits as I'm working on them and there are already some pages like that on the wiki.  Ideally whatever platform we use should be discoverable by search engines, and content should include attribution. 

 

Concrete issues for discussion include: dealing with dates, dealing with subject authorities (as discussed); a 'how to' for content providers (look also at what spacetimecamp and other hack days, open/linked data projects have produced, also Good APIs project, info from Europeana, etc?); a list of resources people have found useful; lists of questions to ask when assessing formats, standards; how to choose a licence that matches your existing terms and test it against proposed usage, etc...

 

Provocative questions

Some really useful questions were asked or emerged as issues over the evening - I'd love to know what you think.

 

 

Other stuff

Other events - http://historyhackday.pbworks.com


Next meetup

Possibly at spacetimecamp meetup on November 5th, and then maybe one later in November? Jonty to organise (yay!).