All,
a recent effect has been that a lot of regional and national aggregators have been using variants of Apache Lucene / SOLR or Elasticsearch indexing fronted with common forms of facet refining REST APIs; this is the case for CultureGrid, Europeana, DigitalNZ, Trove, our CollectionsBase and Rob's CIIM (he'll correct me if I'm wrong) . With the work being done at TNA and EH , a self organising distributed 'grid' as it were is emerging. Creating a federating meta, meta search on top should be reasonably trivial.
The limiting factor in the UK will be the continuing lack of any cross sector (museums, archives, libraries, archaeology) vocabulary harmonisation. I've seen CIDOC CRM overlaps at the 'edges' of museums / archaeology , but without a distributed grid of harmonising vocabulary services, metadata will continue to be stuck in conceptual silos. The Finns have made a good stab at it with ONKI. Will the UK ever meet this (very difficult) challenge?
all best
James
On 12 Feb 2014, at 10:35, Nick Poole wrote:
> Culture Grid is a lot less like Europeana than people seem to think, though. Our ambition is not really to provide a search box for collections. The ambition since the beginning has been to provide an open platform as a service to the UK museum sector, supporting exactly the kinds of cross-organisational sharing of collections data that has been the subject of this thread.
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