I'd like to be able to link to other organisation's people and place
authorities/information records so I could set up Wikipedia-style inline
or sidebar-style 'related' links to help visitors browse across museum
sites. Not every person we think is interesting is 'notable' enough for
a Wikipedia entry, but across the UK we must have lots of records about
the same people, events, places, etc.
Based on conversation with people in and out of the sector, a timeline
generator would be useful - both an XML/whatever output, and an easy way
of creating records.
I'm wondering if there's a way to phrase the question so it makes sense
to the not-so-techy majority of the list? Perhaps 'what are the biggest
problems you face in publishing non-collections data online'?
Even better, take it back to first principles and ask visitors, 'what's
the coolest thing you've seen on other websites that you'd like to be
able to do on a museum website'. Ok, totally out of scope, but
user-focussed development is a nice idea.
cheers, Mia
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> Subject: What APIs would benefit you?
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> We've talked a bit about how APIs reduce development cost (which they
> certainly do, in my experience).
>
> My question to you all (especially museum/gallery developers) is: what
> public APIs would be useful for you, to reduce cost and speed-up
> timescales?
> I.e. apart from those that already exist, what would make sense to
fund
> (or
> develop) for the greater good? What do you spend your time building
> internally that would be better as a public web service?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
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