Bridget McKenzie wrote:
> A Guardian article today picks up on a submitted idea to make
> a mashup of Blue Plaques with Google Maps and Wikipedia
> biographies. Tom Hunter (the MP behind this) says it's his
> favourite and he wants to make it happen. Another submitted
> idea is a map of war memorials. There is also an idea for a
> map of Creative Britain. The site doesn't mention any
> cultural heritage datasets but it does ask for suggestions.
I'd had a similar idea, though mine was to use mashups to show
'guerrilla' Blue Plaques to record histories that would be too marginal
or too modern for official Blue Plaques.
> I have a couple of questions:
> - The Blue Plaque idea is quite simple. Do you think several
> different separate products work better than one big thing
> with lots of datasets feeding in?
I think it might work well if people could 'slice and dice' their view
of official and user-created Blue Plaques, with the cultural heritage
data coming transparently from a variety of sources. That is, the
source of the data should be clear, but the user shouldn't have to do
anything technical to access an aggregated dataset.
For example, you might be interested in 19th century novelists and late
20th century musicians, and also want to contribute content about 21st
century musicians who haven't yet been 'canonised'.
> - Do you have suggestions for cultural collection, learning
> resource & heritage location data that can be made available?
Off the top of my head as I munch on a dodgy shop-made salad, personally
I'd like to see images of the people being commemorated, some
biographical information, and links to more information about their
achievements and their peers and related events.
That information might be available from the National Portrait Gallery,
Wikipedia/Freebase/dbpedia, perhaps existing cross-museum sites like
Exploring 20th Century London and specialist subject data sources.
cheers, Mia
Mia Ridge
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