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Re: Briefing for a 'portal' tender ... any tips?

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"Bleck, Helen" <[log in to unmask]>

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Museums Computer Group <[log in to unmask]>

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Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:55:37 +0000

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Thanks Daphne. You're right, I should contact the heritage gateway people. Next on the list!
Thanks again,
Helen


-----Original Message-----
From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of CHARLES, Daphne
Sent: 09 December 2010 10:45
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Briefing for a 'portal' tender ... any tips?

... or you need look no further than the Heritage Gateway http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/default.aspx
which cross searches about 30 datasets, including 25 or so HERs (some via the ADS), and has a map search faclilty.

Best regards

Daphne Charles


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From: Museums Computer Group [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kate Fernie [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 08 December 2010 10:43
To: CHARLES, Daphne
Subject: Re: Briefing for a 'portal' tender ... any tips?

Hello Helen,

I would suggest looking at the RCAHMS Canmore service and the Archaeology
Data Service catalogue.

The ADS catalogue already includes 6704 records relating to Lothian,
including resources from the Defence of Britain database, West Lothian HER
and the RCAHMS NMR see:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/search/basic_r.cfm?CFID=1904942&CFTOKEN=4203
5904.

It would be good to see the East Lothian HER searchable alongside these
other resources in the ADS catalogue, as it is an important resource for
archaeologists.  The ADS can advise you on how to do this...

The ADS catalogue is a fully interoperable portal, which means that it can
be harvested by Culture Grid so there should be no problem there.

With best wishes,

Kate

-----Original Message-----
From: Bridget McKenzie [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 December 2010 10:55
Subject: Re: Briefing for a 'portal' tender ... any tips?

Hello
Whatever you do to create your portal, the most important thing is to
feed the data into the Culture Grid. This way users can search records
within each distinct collection or all of them grouped under e.g. East
Lothian Heritage. They can also search alongside other heritage
collections from Scotland or the UK. It also means that developers or
other cultural organisations can feed your records into other services
for users, due to its open API.

For advice on how to do this, ask the Collections Trust about Culture
Grid http://www.culturegrid.org.uk/

And for advice on how to combine feeding the Grid with creating a joint
portal, ask James Grimster at OrangeLeaf on the architecture behind
Black Country History http://blackcountryhistory.org/

You could consider the option of not creating a portal, but simply feed
data into the Grid, group it into an East Lothian Heritage collection,
then promote what users can do with the Grid via a simple webpage (e.g.
Council page). You can then use social media and your email networks etc
to spread the word and invite feedback.

Best wishes
Bridget McKenzie
www.flowassociates.com

On 06/12/2010 13:06, Bleck, Helen wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Here at East Lothian Council the heritage services (Archaeology, Archives,
Museums and Local History) are teaming up in a new centre currently being
built in Haddington - the John Gray Centre. We'd like to be able to make
their individual databases (Historic Environment Record, CALM catalogue,
open source database and various small databases, some on Access,
respectively) all searchable online through a single 'portal' or gateway,
and we'd like users to be able to choose an individual database to search,
or to search all simultaneously. I've recently joined the Museums team to
try and help make the portal happen, and I'm looking for any advice or tips
from others who've done something similar.
>
> We've seen some examples online - Exploring Surrey's Past, Norfolk
Heritage Explorer, Highland Historic Environment, Cambridgeshire and
University of Stirling CALM archive searches, and many more. They all look
very impressive.
>
> If anyone has a brief/spec that they've used with some success for this
type of thing and wouldn't mind sharing it, could I have a look? At the
moment, our brief bears some resemblance to a long letter to Santa, and we
really need to refine it down into the essentials of what we really need,
what's less essential for the first stage, and what we'd ultimately like to
be able to achieve - but also to focus it more on the procurement process,
and what potential tenderers really need to know. It would be helpful to
hear people's experience of user-generated content with this kind of project
too - how useful is it, is it difficult or time-consuming to moderate, etc.
Has anyone come across something they've tried to add to this kind of
gateway that really didn't work or caused tremendous headaches? Or found
something that worked really well?
>
> One of our main concerns is that the databases and their tables/fields are
all quite different, and the different services have over time used
different thesauri for classifying content - it will take some fairly
sophisticated search methods to search them all effectively.
>
> Other issues we're thinking about are:
> - where is the portal to sit - on a bells&whistles website for the John
Gray Centre (one of the things on our ultimate wishlist), or on its own
simple site, with the main JGC website separate? We plan to build up the JGC
site gradually over time and eventually to make it quite an interactive,
lively site, so will need a good base for it from the start, whether it's
home to the portal or not;
> - what are the pros and cons of internal/external hosting (Council is
happy to explore either, and we'll ask potential tenderers their options);
> - we do plan to use regularly updated copies of our active databases for
the portal, and need to consider how we upload the data (it needs to be
straightforward and not too slow).
>
> I hope some of you can help! I'll be very interested to read your
responses.
>
> Kind regards,
> Helen
>
>
> Helen Bleck
> John Gray Centre Heritage Resources Development Officer
>
> East Lothian Council Museums Service
> Library and Museums HQ
> Dunbar Road
> Haddington
> EH41 3PJ
> Tel: 01620 828210
> Fax: 01620 828201
>
> Visit the East Lothian Museums blog at
http://www.eastlothianmuseums.org/wp/
> Find us on Facebook - 'East Lothian Council Museum Service'
>
>
>
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