Thanks Phill (and others) for your comments and RSVPs.
I've prompted to add a sign-up page for tomorrow's meetup so you can let
people know you're coming (or that you're interested but can't make it):
http://museum-api.pbworks.com/Who%27s+coming+-+July+7%2C+2010
Cheers, Mia
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Phill Purdy
> Sent: 06 July 2010 13:58
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Free beer next Wednesday!
>
> Hi Mia,
>
> Hopefully Culture Grid will be there, represented by people
> from either Collections Trust or technical partners Knowledge
> Integration Ltd.
>
> Even if we don't make it, I'd encourage people attending and
> the wider MCG and Museum-API community to promote and play
> with the Culture Grid APIs (further info at
> http://www.culturegrid.org.uk/use/) and feedback to us via
> [log in to unmask]
>
> The Culture Grid website and new searches all went live from
> www.culturegrid.org.uk, as a Beta service, for the Collect
> Exhibition last week and it would be great to build up a
> community of developers looking to do interesting and useful
> things with the Culture Grid and the access it gives to a
> growing 'critical mass' of over 1 million objects records
> from a wide variety of UK collections.
>
> There is a Collections Link network for people interested in
> using the Culture Grid, which I'd also encourage interested
> people to join,
> (http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/index.cfm?ct=network.displa
> yNetwork/n
> ame/Culture%20Grid%20Users/networkId/18)
>
> A great and recent example of different things that can be
> done with the Culture Grid API and collections from a
> particular region, comes from Mike Hirst, an independent
> developer who has worked with collections in the North East
> of England and elsewhere:
> http://mikehirst.netfirms.com/CultureGridNE/
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
>
>
> Phill
>
>
> Phill Purdy
> Culture Grid Manager: Connecting UK Collections
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Ridge Mia
> Sent: 01 July 2010 19:44
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Free beer next Wednesday!
>
> Not really, it's a geek meetup... But I made you look, right?
>
> Sorry for tricking you like that, but I wanted to make sure
> non-geeks saw this because I'd love some feisty sceptics to
> show up and challenge people to make all these geeky acronyms
> work in the real museum world.
>
> A very informal meetup to discuss 'Linking museums:
> machine-readable data in cultural heritage' is happening next
> Wednesday. I'm hoping for a good mix of people with
> different levels of experience and different perspectives on
> the issue of publishing data that can be re-used outside the
> institution that created it.
>
> The basic details are: July 7, 2010, Shooting Star pub,
> London. 7:30 - 10pm-ish.
> http://museum-api.pbworks.com/July-2010-meetup
>
> I know EVA London and THATCamp London are on that week, and
> I'd love to invite attendees from those and other geek or
> cultural heritage events, so please do pass this on to others
> who may be interested. If you would like to come but can't
> get down to that London, please feel free to send me your
> questions and comments (or beer money).
>
> In more detail...
>
> Why?
> I'm trying to cut through the chicken and egg problem - as a
> museum technologist, I can work towards getting
> machine-readable data available, but I'm not sure which
> formats and what data would be most useful for developers who
> might use it. Without a critical mass of take-up for any one
> type, the benefits of any one data source are more limited
> for developers. But museums seem to want a sense of where
> the critical mass is going to be so they can build for that.
> How do we cut through this and come up with a sensible roadmap?
>
>
> Who?
> You! If you're interested in using museum data in mashups but
> find it difficult to get started or find the data available
> isn't easily usable; if you have data you want to publish; if
> you work in a museum and have a data publication problem
> you'd like help in solving; if you are a cheerleader for your
> favourite acronym...
>
> Put another way, this event is for you if you're interested
> in publishing and sharing data about their museums and
> collections through technologies such as linked data and microformats.
>
> It'll be pretty informal! I'm not sure how much we can get
> done but it'd be nice to put faces to names, and maybe start
> some discussions around the various problems that could be
> solved and tools that could be created with machine-readable
> data in cultural heritage.
>
> Cheers, Mia
>
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