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Nice one Mike. Google will certainly be able to do a lot with their regular brute force approach. If we could somehow have that conversation with Google to get them to use the DC data that is out there and being wasted it could do even more! I've been looking rather ignorantly at Nutch to see whether such a spider could be adapted to our own purposes. There is already a project to extend it to search microformats and for those who know how I guess this could be adapted to our own or to process DC MD or whatever. Wouldn't that be nice? Then we could be searching more structured data, perhaps combining it with regular text indexing. Sounds like a job for someone quite centrally placed, though. Whereas your co-op SE is ready to roll and churning out results immediately - great stuff. Jeremy Jeremy Ottevanger Web Developer, Museum Systems Team Museum of London Group 46 Eagle Wharf Road London. N1 7ED Tel: 020 7410 2207 Fax: 020 7600 1058 Email: [log in to unmask] www.museumoflondon.org.uk Visit Belonging: Voices of London's Refugees - a new thought-provoking free exhibition Glamour, grandeur, sleaze, disease - discover a great city in the making at the Museum of London -----Original Message----- From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of electronic museum Sent: 18 December 2006 11:40 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [MCG] Google Coop / Museum collections All, Some weekend fiddling from me that you might be interested in: http://www.museumcollections.org.uk Why? 1. To test it out and see how easy Google coop is to use 2. To see whether vaguely meaningful results are returned 3. To provide an example of something which might be useful and built for free (well, £10 for the domain...), and in under 10 minutes More seriously, I had a conversation recently about making collections data more granular and Semantic Webby. We were talking about exposing DC metadata in the head of documents and he made the point that the "brute force" approach of Google would be just as good, if not better, at discovering worthwhile content. So...I thought I'd put together a benchmark test of this approach - then as the sector continues to think more seriously about cross-museum collections searching, we could come back to this and see which works better... Please do volunteer to contribute to this collection by clicking the relevant link. The more the merrier. cheers Mike ________________________________________________ The Electronic Museum w: http://www.electronicmuseum.org.uk e: [log in to unmask] g: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/electronicmuseum/ EM feeds: resources: http://feeds.feedburner.com/emresources blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/emblogposts ************************************************** For mcg information and to manage your subscription to the list, visit the website at http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk ************************************************** ************************************************** For mcg information and to manage your subscription to the list, visit the website at http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk **************************************************