Great to see both data being made open in this way and useful things being built so quickly.
Will definitely seek to add this data to Culture Grid too, so other (API etc based) access points are available to it.
(This also all fits nicely as practical examples re the JISC/RLUK Resource Discovery programme which has been posted about recently on list - http://rdtf.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ which has some v.relevant projects underway http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/infrastructureforresourcediscovery.aspx )
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Frankie Roberto
Sent: 11 March 2011 10:03
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Subject: Re: Science Museum, National Media Museum, National Railway Museum object records released
Yesterday, Mia Ridge wrote:
> I wanted to let you know that NMSI has released 218,822 object records
> from the Science Museum, National Media Museum, and National Railway
> Museum
>
Yay - well done to Mia for getting these object records released. It's an
interesting lesson that for large, fairly static databases like object
records, complete data dumps are probably more useful for developers than an
object-level API, at least initially.
I thought I'd have a quick play with the data last night, and so managed to
import them into a database and built a quick web app called 'Things':
http://what-is-this.heroku.com/
The main thing I wanted out of the data was to be able to browse by
type-of-thing (eg 'steam engines'). Given that this information isn't easily
accessible from the existing data, the first thing that 'Things' does is ask
people to help classify the objects.
It's sort of like tagging. But easier. :-)
If I get enough things classified I may have a go at seeing if an algorithm
can learn from the data and classify the rest.
Let me know what you think.
Source code is here: https://github.com/frankieroberto/things - patches
welcome!
Frankie
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