All,
Some weekend fiddling from me that you might be interested in:
http://www.museumcollections.org.uk
Why?
1. To test it out and see how easy Google coop is to use
2. To see whether vaguely meaningful results are returned
3. To provide an example of something which might be useful and built for
free (well, £10 for the domain...), and in under 10 minutes
More seriously, I had a conversation recently about making collections data
more granular and Semantic Webby. We were talking about exposing DC metadata
in the head of documents and he made the point that the "brute force"
approach of Google would be just as good, if not better, at discovering
worthwhile content.
So...I thought I'd put together a benchmark test of this approach - then as
the sector continues to think more seriously about cross-museum collections
searching, we could come back to this and see which works better...
Please do volunteer to contribute to this collection by clicking the
relevant link. The more the merrier.
cheers
Mike
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