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Mike, Thanks for this brilliant demonstration. As (some of) you know, I am not technically knowledgeable. All I 'know' is that googling is a much better way of finding stuff in museums in the UK than Cornucopia, etc. etc. etc. will ever be. And, praise be, it works with what's there, rather than forcing everyone to follow inadequate patterns determined on high. (It's lucky I haven't just had my Christmas lunch.) Jeremy On 18 Dec 2006, at 11:39, electronic museum wrote: > 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 **************************************************