I once had a little script working (back when del.icio.us was a thing) where you’d just bookmark what you liked and tag it with some tag, plus add your description if you wished. Then you could pass your del.icio.us username and the tag to a page wot I made and it would collate the content from the bookmarked pages and render the media from them as JSON to display as you saw fit. There’s more to say on it* but the idea was simply to use a tool people already use to do the collecting of links – you could just as well make something similar to accept a twitter user ID and hashtag. Or in my case, Pinboard (which came to the rescue when del.icio.us went s.ou.r).

 

Cheers, Jeremy

 

*here’s more: it actually used oEmbed, so for various sites that support that e.g. Flickr, YouTube, and iwm.org.uk (back then) it would get the preferred media for that page. And you could add tags for sequencing too. Like so many of my brainwaves the poor died of thirst in the desert of my apathy

 

 

Interesting discussion and one that reminds me of the now ancient blogs and comments about the long-retired Creative Spaces. http://blog.variousbits.net/2009/03/04/creative-spaces-justwhy/

I was involved at the end of that project, tasked with carrying out a technical audit. There is somewhere on the web a FoI response that details the usage if its any help, google 'nmolp creative spaces'.

Some years later, a small coding doodle of mine turned into Culture Collage and up came the notion of allowing people to curate their own lists. I toyed with the idea of registration but decided to look into simpler, anonymous methods. I based the scrapbook idea from online shopping baskets (Asos actually). I use local storage so the lists are available only in the browser used to save them. You can't do much with them, however, using Chrome, you can download the list as an html page that can be edited, published and/or embedded. I have spent little time promoting or monitoring it's usage but still get the occassional email asking for enhancements - to my amazement.

Culture Collage was also the basis for Microsoft Office Apps that allow users to search collections (DPLA/Europeana/DNZ) from within a Word or Powerpoint document and embed the results.  I do have a lot of metrics for those but it would probably take a week or so to analyse and prepare.

Monique

 

Hi all

 

For those with online collections, how many of you allow users to create their own sets of objects/media in any sort of way?

 

What functionality do you offer, for example can users

-          add titles and descriptions to sets

-          add comments on individual items within a set

-          share sets publicly

-          embed their sets elsewhere e.g. as slideshows

-          batch download items in sets

-          do anything more creative with sets and the items within them

-          do anything else I haven’t even thought of …

 

Or do you perhaps encourage users to use third party platforms to do things like this, and if so, which ones?

 

I’m thinking of anything from very rich examples like Rijksstudio, through things like Pinterest Boards and Flickr Galleries, right through to any more basic examples where you can, in effect, just make a list of your own personal favourites.

 

All examples and links gratefully received, even if they’re not yours but just things you’ve seen!

 

Thanks

 

James

 

 

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