Hi James
Hope you had a nice flight & thought you'd like the question ... look forward to seeing your thoughts. There are some good things out there, but (I feel) not as many as there should be.
I was excluding crowdsourcing only insofar as it serviced knowledge about the original collections -- I was looking for things that used digitised collections for reasons unrelated to them being collections (if you see what I mean).
Cheers,
Danny
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Sent: 01 September 2014 13:49
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Subject: Re: [MCG] The uses of digitised cultural herutage material
Hi Danny
Nice question!
I'm about to jump on a plane, so for now this will have to be a brief answer. In fact Monique has done my job for me anyway, as the showcases she links to for Europeana, DPLA and Trove are great starting points.
Out of interest, why are you excluding crowdsourcing?
Anyway, I'll have a better think and hopefully provide you with a bit more detail, and thoughts.
Cheers, James
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From: Museums Computer Group [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Monique Szpak [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 01 September 2014 13:21
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Subject: Re: The uses of digitised cultural herutage material
Hi Danny and MCG,
I'm not a GLAM professional although I do contract for museums as a technical consultant. I love using cultural heritage data especially via APIs.
Culture Collage <http://zenlan.com/collage> is free to use, no adverts and really just a love job and side project with no marketing whatsoever. Despite this, I have had feedback from far afield, e.g.
universities in the US asking about using it as a teaching resource. I was mightily chuffed to wake up one morning to find the Dean of the Chair of History at Harvard had tweeted about it!
I have also turned it intowebapp plugins for Microsoft Office <http://zenlan.com/apps>. Sadly these are commercial as MS insist on API requests being secure which they aren't and so I have to fund the security certificate and proxy all the requests. I have approached DPLA, Europeana and DNZ about adding SSL to their APIs and they have put it on their roadmaps. If they can do that then I can remove the fee for the apps - which I would love to do! My other free app has thousands of downloads while the cultural ones have 'several' :(
The code is almost plug-n-play now. When I saw the announcement from the Internet Archive on Saturday I had them installed in less than an hour.
Would have been quicker but I was on a campsite near Bletchley with dodgy wifi.
Would love some APIs from Asia, Africa and South America! Where are they? :)
I know that Neil Saunders at http://www.geopast.com uses the same aggregator APIs - Europeana, DPLA, Trove and DNZ
John Resig, has done some fantastic work with Japanese woodblock prints using data from various cultural institutions http://ukiyo-e.org/about
James Morley should be along any minute to tell you about his projects - http://www.whatsthatpicture.com and http://culturepics.org
Some of the aggregators have lists of apps that use their APIs and data:
http://labs.europeana.eu/apps
http://dp.la/apps
http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/building-with-trove/application-gallery
There is also a list of 'Cool stuff made with heritage APIs' compiled by Mia Ridge at http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/21933412/Cool%20stuff%20made%20with%20cultural%20heritage%20APIs
Cheers,
Monique Szpak
On 01/09/2014 11:27, Birchall, Danny wrote:
> Good morning MCGlisters!
>
> We all raise a mighty cheer when another massive tranche<http://blog.archive.org/2014/08/29/millions-of-historic-images-posted-to-flickr/> of nicely-licensed cultural heritage images are added in a usable form to the public domain. It's undoubtedly a good thing, and it's where such images belong. But I've been wondering recently how such material is used, other than in the commons image repositories to which they are added, and by people other than the organisations who put them there.
>
> So I'm interested in finding digital 'things' (websites, apps, projects, whatever) that make use of digitised cultural heritage material. I'm looking for things that are:
>
> 1) Publicly-available (though not necessarily free) and not primarily
> for academics
> 2) Use a significant amount of permissively-licensed digitised content
> from (preferably more than one) cultural heritage organisations
> 3) Aren't produced directly or indirectly by one of those
> organisations
> 4) Aren't designed to be any kind of guide to digitised collections, or crowdsource knowledge about them, but rather use them to do something else.
>
> Almost the only thing that I can think of that does anything like this
> at the moment is the excellent Public Domain review
> (publicdomainreview.org<http://publicdomainreview.org/>), which
> publishes historical essays, curated collections and even a GIF
> gallery using public domain material, for a popular and generally
> interested audience. (There are also some 'Creative Projects' listed
> as part of the British Library's Flickr Commons project
> (blpublicdomain.wikispaces.com/Creative+Projects<http://blpublicdomain
> .wikispaces.com/Creative+Projects>) )
>
> Am I missing lots of other good examples? Please tell me! (and I'll compile & recirculate a list).
>
> If I'm not, and there are few other examples, then why? Are the images useful in 'invisible' ways (classroom presentations, lecture slides) that can't easily be seen or listed? Or even just in 'traditional' ways like books (gasp!); or maybe Ugly Renaissance Babies<http://uglyrenaissancebabies.tumblr.com/> / Medieval Beasts That Cannot Even Handle It Right Now<http://blog.archive.org/2014/08/29/millions-of-historic-images-posted-to-flickr/> represent the way digital cultural heritage images can (& should) be used.
>
> This isn't to start an argument about the value of digital collections
> or online catalogues - I'm a true believer in that regard. I'm just
> genuinely interested in this particular kind of use case for digitised
> images
>
> Thank you for any lights you can shed.
>
> Danny
>
>
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