On 19/8/08 11:51, Ottevanger, Jeremy wrote:
> ...and if you didn't catch the threads a earlier this year that covered some of this ground it's worth having a look at the list archives http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email.shtml. Richard Light kicked off "Linking Open Data" back in June, whilst back in Feb I had loads of great responses to some questions I posed about the role of/need for an API for the EDL project. Some of this is compiled and summarised in posts I tagged MCG, API or EDL: http://doofercall.blogspot.com/search/label/mcg, http://doofercall.blogspot.com/search/label/API, http://doofercall.blogspot.com/search/label/EDL.
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Thanks. I'll take a look.
> One thing to add to what you wrote (which looks like a good list) is that collections data are not the only data we can release via APIs, though they're the obvious and juiciest target, and the focus of the project you're talking about. Exhibitions data (like Frankie R released), events data (like we've got available) and any number of more specialised datasets all present opportunities if we open them up.
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Very good point! It also strikes me that something like events data are
going to be a lot easier to syndicate, given that there are already
standard and easy ways to do this (iCalendar, or even the hCalendar
microformat).
-Tristan.
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