Thanks both / all
JO - should just say that the connector we have is for Culture Grid, not
Europeana - not yet anyway. We're talking to James Morley about this now
though, so will see where it goes.
Useful conversation, thanks everyone.
Mike
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Jeremy Ottevanger wrote:
> Thanks Adam, that's a very useful insight. Not all great news, but nevertheless it may be worthwhile for people to investigate the LIDO plugin - for Mike's project I imagine it would be useful to develop a LIDO importer anyway. In fact I believe there are LIDO to EDM mappings available, so perhaps he could then build on the Europeana importer his WordPress plugin already has.
> Cheers, Jeremy
>
> Pogány Ádám<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> Unfortunatelly, you should not count on that...
> Not much work has done on integrating the ECK during the project. GS has a - beta - plugin for exporting LIDO from TMS but that's all. There're rumours though they're re-thinking the whole data exchange process of the system.
>
> As for an API, I've never came across anything like that in the past couple of years. We're using native SQL for tasks that would require one.
>
> You should have the documentation on tables and columns as part of the install/upgrade package and... well, "Yay, adventure!"
>
> My two cents
> Adam
>
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> Elküldve: 2014. november 19. 15:49
> Címzett: [log in to unmask]
> Tárgy: Re: TMS / Gallery Systems API?
>
> I wonder if the various genii that worked on Europeana Connection Kit can tell us if there's anything coming from Gallery Systems? They are an associate member of Europeana Inside, so perhaps. If they're integrating the ECK into TMS that might help, eventually, because you could then get data out in some sane and standards-compliant form to feed your (rather fab) WP plugin.
>
> Oh look, there's Godot!
>
> Cheers, Jeremy
>
>
>
> Jeremy Ottevanger
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike Ellis
> Sent: 19 November 2014 14:06
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [MCG] TMS / Gallery Systems API?
>
> Ha, that's great - thanks Perry.
>
> My favourite snippets:
>
> "At the end of it all TMS is a MS-SQL database and, in 2013, it still
> feels like an epic struggle just to get the raw data out of TMS so that
> single task is principally what these tools deal with."
>
> "We are making this code available because we're all in the TMS soup
> together and maybe the work we've done so far can help others and going
> forward we can try to make things a little better, together."
>
> "There is no attempt to interpret the data or the reconcile the twisty
> maze of relationships between the many tables in TMS. That is left as an
> exercise to the reader. This is not a one-button magic pony. This is
> code that works for us today. It has issues. If you choose to use it you
> will probably discover new issues. Yay, adventure!"
>
> ...maybe we won't build a TMS extension for our WordPress plugin after
> all...
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
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>
> * My book: http://heritageweb.co.uk<http://heritageweb.co.uk/> *
>
>
>
> Bonewell, Perry wrote:
>> Not sure there is anything online but during my own investigations I came across this:
>>
>> https://github.com/cooperhewitt/tms-tools
>>
>> Cooper Hewitt have built their own API on top of TMS but have open sourced the tool they use to extract data out of the system.
>>
>> :)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike Ellis
>> Sent: 19 November 2014 11:54
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [MCG] TMS / Gallery Systems API?
>>
>> Can anyone point me at the API docs for TMS?
>>
>> May be being dense, but can't seem to find anything..
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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