A quick update from the evening - I've put notes on some of the
discussions at http://bit.ly/b9AawP
Some questions that came out of the evening are below - I'd love to know
what you think.
Two practical questions - is the wiki the best place for people to share
stuff, think aloud, get feedback and work out what 'best practice' looks
like? Related: what's the best way to push notifications at people -
twitter, mailing list?
Various usefully provocative questions
* can you provide tools to help non-tech people use your data?
Further, on discussion, what would an interface that helped people help
themselves be like?
* as developers, what do you want from a subject authority? [a
museum-y term, I know, but it's people, organisations, places, events,
etc. e.g. biographies of scientists, events or places relevant to our
collections]
* is there any value in a survey of developers that would help
museums understand the type and level of demand for machine-readable
data? Ask developers their top wish request from GLAM (galleries,
museums, libraries and archives). It could help prove demand (or not)
and help museums understand what users need and better direct efforts.
It could be as simple as: 1. what do you want to do with the data? 2.
How do you want to access it? 3. what rights do you need? (variation: do
you want to use it commercially?)
* geek accessibility - is the mention of RDF/SPARQL to a mid-level
or tinkerer developer what stairs are to Daleks?
* what if the British Museum was a start-up?
* what does a good request for data look like? AKA, moving beyond
FOI to sustainable (for the org) reusable (for the dev) provision of
data.
The next meetup will probably be part of the #spacetimecamp meetup on
November 5th.
Cheers, Mia
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Mia
> Sent: 26 September 2010 14:53
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> Subject: The next 'linking museums' meetup - tomorrow
>
> And... it's happening tomorrow! I've booked a table under my
> name for Monday, September 27, 7:30 - 10pm-ish at the
> Shooting Star pub, Bishopsgate, London. The pub serves food
> so I might try and arrive earlier for something to eat.
>
> Die-hards, sceptics and newbies welcome. I might try and
> bring some sample records to work up into markup with people
> there but the discussion is open to any topic that comes up
> at the time.
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