On 18 August 2011 09:07, Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thinking that I might put together a "Wordpress for Culture" hackday....
> Anyone in?
Could you define 'hackday'? I get the sense some of this is more
about training and enough of an overview of the possibilities to get
started, rather than firing up a text editor and writing plugins?
I love a culture hack day, and writing WordPress plugins is lots of
fun, but you need to be quite comfortable coding (and probably have
more than a day) to get something really useful done. Owen Stephens
and I wrote a WordPress plugin (to search Europeana's collections and
insert the results into a blog post for you) in c6 hours at
Europeana's hack4Europe but we didn't have nearly enough time to code
around the many wonderful idiosyncrasies of Europeana's search and the
immensely varied data in the repository. Like most products of hack
days, it'd need more work (including user experience work for content
editors) to make it a solution we could roll out to institutional
users.
More generally, if people are looking at WordPress plugins, at another
hack day Ian Ibbotson and I wrote a plugin to search the CultureGrid
repository (again, with the caveats of working around search
implementation and variable data) and I'd be happy to share that code.
I've also written a plugin that queries the Powerhouse Museum's
collections API - needs documentation and tidying but it might be
useful to someone.
Btw, small list admin note while I'm here: could people tidy up old
posts and signatures at the bottom of their replies?
Cheers, Mia
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