WAG Hack Day Saturday 16 April 2011, 10am - 6pm at the Public, West Bromwich What can you create using our open data feed? We are looking for web developers, designers and programmers to help us explore ideas about how our data feed can be used to create new and interesting stuff! Bring your own laptop Refreshments and lunch provided We also have a limited number of places for non-techie museum staff interested in getting their museum objects out to a wider audience. Book your place <http://waghack.eventbrite.com/> More info... Over the last 12 months museums and archive services in the Black Country have been working together to make their collections information available online via our Black Country History website. Metadata for our museum and archive items is available as an Application Programmer's Interface (API) that is easy to use and quick to get started with. Via the API you can submit search queries to return metadata for individual partners or subjects. The API is based upon OpenSearch, and by default takes a Lucene style query syntax. Our data is also fed into the Culture Grid <http://www.culturegrid.org.uk/> which has its own API which includes data from dozens of cultural organisations across the UK. We are hoping that developers will use our metadata, either on its own or mixed with other data sets to create a new widget, mashup or application. More details on our hack day website <http://waghackday.wordpress.com/> and you can also follow us on twitter @WAGhack <http://twitter.com/WAGhack> . Linda Ellis Project Manager Black Country Collections Online Wolverhampton Art Gallery Lichfield Street Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 1DU tel. 01902 552 048 fax. 01902 552 053 www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT'S COMING UP EXHIBITIONS <http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/wolves/exhibitions> EVENTS <http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/wolves/events> JOIN OUR MAILING LIST <http://www.patronmailuk.com/bnmailweb/PatronSetup?oid=142> --------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: This email and files transmitted are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, or the person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you may not copy, disclose, distribute or use it in any unauthorised manner. If you have received this email in error please notify us by email to [log in to unmask] and then delete it and any attachments accompanying it. Please note that Wolverhampton City Council cannot guarantee that this message or any attachments are virus free or have not been intercepted and amended. Any views or opinions expressed within this email are those of the author and may not necessarily reflect those of Wolverhampton City Council and no contractual arrangement is intended to arise from this communication. --------------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************** website: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ukmcg Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/museumscomputergroup [un]subscribe: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/ ****************************************************************