We will shortly be launching our re-developed Black Country History
website. The website is basically an online catalogue that gives access
to over 100,000 records of collection items held by 4 museum services
and 4 archive services in the Black Country. As part of the
redevelopment we are making the data available for harvesting by Culture
Grid and other websites.
We are very interested in working with a developer / developers to
create some pilot mashups / widgets / websites / whatever that will use
our data and / or images in new ways to showcase our collections to
wider / new audiences.
We have a very small amount of funding that we could use to support this
and are asking for expressions of interest from any developers out there
who might like to work with us on this.
Our collections are quite diverse and include archival documents, maps
and old photos relating to the Black Country, nationally important
geology collections, fine and decorative art from the UK and abroad,
including a nationally important glass collection, costume, leather,
lorinery, archaeology, ethnographic items, local and social history and
more.
While we are sorting out the last few bugs ready to go live, you can see
our test site at http://bch.collectionspress.com/ to get a feel for what
we have available on the site and find out more about using our data.
If you are interested in working with us or know of somebody who might
be, please contact me off list by email or by phone.
Linda
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
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