Thanks Dan,
We are interested in publishing geoRSS feeds.
The feed includes the 'Place Made' field from our Mimsy records
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=SLR2166
And the 'Geographical Coverage' field from our library records
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=GREN%20HWD%20E3
So some raw data is available that could be converted to lat/long via a geocoding service.
It would be interesting to find a way of including 'place depicted' as a field too. At the moment, adding subject authority fields to the search results involves doing some fairly expensive joins in the SQL, which would be impractical for the live search.
Cheers
Jim
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel Pett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 10 April 2008 17:40
>To: Jim O'Donnell
>Subject: RE: OpenSearch and RSS at the National Maritime Museum
>
>
>Dear Jim,
>Great stuff, glad more people are doing this. Is there any possibility
>of producing geoRSS from your collections system data? I think that
>would be potentially interesting to mashups on a wider scale than say
>someone interested in medals who wants to add these to their site via
>xml parsing.
>Yours,
>Dan
>
>DEJ Pett BA, M.Phil
>ICT Adviser, The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
>T: +44 (0) 20 7323 8618
>W: http://www.finds.org.uk
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