Mashup of Museums and Universities
Brian Kelly, UKOLN
held at the University of York on 16-18 July. There will be about 190
participants from UK Universities.
This year we are introducing an Innovation Competition -see
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/competition/
It occurs to me that it might be interesting to have a mashup which
combines data from the museum and university sectors e.g. a map
showing the location of museums near a University.
An example is available at:
http://northumbria.ac.uk/browse/radius5/
Even better would be if this took a live RSS feed from the nearby
museums.
Note we have various RSS feeds to play with:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/iwmw/
And a colleague has written a Yahoo Pipes application which she's
happy for others to build on:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=YOFRIk4j3BGm6bdRl7okhQ
Note as the event is at York University, museums near this might be of
interest. A possible opportunity to build on Mike's recent Google
Earth mashup, perhaps.
Any interest?
Brian Kelly
UKOLN
Stephen Pope
Now a few quick questions in response to Brian's email ..
@Brian: Is the delegate xml updated dynamically or is it a static file ?
@All: Is the list of museum locations that people consumed from the RSS feed from 24hr museum or is it better to grab the munged data from mike ? was the 24hr museum one fixed ?
Is there a list of university locations (RSS or otherwise) that i could grab if anyone knows of one ?
Also I found a good geocoding service to convert to/from masses of different formats (lat/long / British OS refs etc) if anyone is interested!
.. and if anyone knows of any museum feeds that have location data in it would be good to try it out one some of them !!
Stephen
Any interest?
Brian Kelly
UKOLN
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Roberto Frankie
> .. and if anyone knows of any museum feeds that have location
> data in it would be good to try it out one some of them !!
I'm still having a play around with the site I started putting together,
looking at how different museum collections have been acquired from
different countries around the world, in different decades. So I'm
mapping databases of objects to iso country codes, but they'll all be
static data dumps rather than live feeds.
I'll try and get something up online to show within a few weeks.
Frankie
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Ridge, Mia
> Also I found a good geocoding service to convert to/from
> masses of different formats (lat/long / British OS refs etc)
> if anyone is interested!
Ooh, yes. I'd been blogging about that recently cos all the archaeological data uses NG references and most mapping APIs use lat/long and I'm nowhere near enough of a geogeek to know which projections to use.
> .. and if anyone knows of any museum feeds that have location
> data in it would be good to try it out one some of them !!
I'm not sure if the MoL event feeds at http://feeds.feedburner.com/MuseumOfLondonGroupUpcomingEvents have location data in them but if not, they probably should! Let us know what would be useful info for you.
cheers, Mia
Mia Ridge
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Museum of London Group
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Mike
recently: http://www.geonames.org/ - seems pretty useful, and has data
dump / webservice which will probably be of use.
If you haven't seen already (course you have - EVERYONE reads my
blog...ahem...) then I've written a brief "how I did it" for my museum
directory thingy here:
http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/experiments/museum-directory/
Frankie has helped me (hopefully) get to the bottom of the KML problem
(link at bottom of the app doesn't work but isn't a 404) - am just
waiting for my hosting company to add the MIME type and see if it
works then...
Cheers
Mike
On Jun 26, 2:14 pm, "Stephen Pope" <stephen.p...@eduserv.org.uk>
wrote:
> First off it was great to meet you all at the event .. I had an excellent time and although i am a relative newbie to all this museum business it was good to realise so many of us are trying to do the same things ! Hopefully we can find a way to share information and progress as a united front :?P
>
> Now a few quick questions in response to Brian's email ..
>
> @Brian: Is the delegate xml updated dynamically or is it a static file ?
>
> @All: Is the list of museum locations that people consumed from the RSS feed from 24hr museum or is it better to grab the munged data from mike ? was the 24hr museum one fixed ?
> Is there a list of university locations (RSS or otherwise) that i could grab if anyone knows of one ?
>
> Also I found a good geocoding service to convert to/from masses of different formats (lat/long / British OS refs etc) if anyone is interested!
>
> .. and if anyone knows of any museum feeds that have location data in it would be good to try it out one some of them !!
>
> Stephen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mashed...@googlegroups.com [mailto:mashed...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Kelly, UKOLN
> Sent: 26 June 2007 10:20
> To: Mashed Museum
> Subject: Mashup of Museums and Universities
>
> UKOLN's annual Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) will be
> held at the University of York on 16-18 July. There will be about 190
> participants from UK Universities.
>
> This year we are introducing an Innovation Competition -seehttp://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/comp...
Mike
clean data in it. I'd better check with Jon about how much they want
it circulated. Will get back to you...
Mike
On Jun 27, 4:12 pm, Mike <mike.el...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would be good to hear about the geocoding. I also bookmarked this
> recently:http://www.geonames.org/- seems pretty useful, and has data
Stephen Pope
I've been in a geotag frenzy all day looking at the different formats / GeoRSS / opensearch geo tagging etc some interesting stuff and I'll try and post some info about it soon.
(also on an embarrassing note I made a comment to your blog that the guys @ the LAARC dig should geo-tag their flickr photos but looks like they already have (think I was looking at the few photos that didn't have them .. doh!)
cheers, Mia
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Roberto Frankie
As I understand it, the reason there's no proper free API to convert
post codes into lat/long is because the Post Office own the data and
only licence it commercially.
I've seen this project which aims to re-create a free version of the
database - http://www.freethepostcode.org/ - but seeing as the data can
only be collected by people manually entering lat/long co-ordinates
collected personally by GPS, so it'll probably take a while to get
exhaustive coverage!
Frankie
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Frankie Roberto
Google has now opened up a geo-coding API. See
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/07/uk-geocoding-now-available-in-maps-api.html
Via http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/07/geocoding-for-uk-now-available.html
Frankie
On Jun 28, 2:08 pm, "Stephen Pope" <stephen.p...@eduserv.org.uk>
wrote:
> http://www.nearby.org.uk/api/convert-help.php.. this is the service I'm using .. its only available for lightweight usage but works very well (i just take the postcodes and convert them and save the lat / longs down so the hit on the server isn't very big !) covers lots of different formats .. i think this guy must be the king of the geogeeks :?P
>
> I've been in a geotag frenzy all day looking at the different formats / GeoRSS / opensearch geo tagging etc some interesting stuff and I'll try and post some info about it soon.
>
> (also on an embarrassing note I made a comment to your blog that the guys @ the LAARC dig should geo-tag their flickr photos but looks like they already have (think I was looking at the few photos that didn't have them .. doh!)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mashed...@googlegroups.com [mailto:mashed...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ridge, Mia
> Sent: 27 June 2007 16:08
> To: mashed...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: Mashup of Museums and Universities
>
> > Also I found a good geocoding service to convert to/from
> > masses of different formats (lat/long / British OS refs etc)
> > if anyone is interested!
>
> Ooh, yes. I'd been blogging about that recently cos all the archaeological data uses NG references and most mapping APIs use lat/long and I'm nowhere near enough of a geogeek to know which projections to use.
>
> > .. and if anyone knows of any museum feeds that have location
> > data in it would be good to try it out one some of them !!
>
> I'm not sure if the MoL event feeds athttp://feeds.feedburner.com/MuseumOfLondonGroupUpcomingEventshave location data in them but if not, they probably should! Let us know what would be useful info for you.
>
> cheers, Mia
>
> Mia Ridge
> Database Developer, Museum Systems Team
> Museum of London Group
> 46 Eagle Wharf Road
> London. N1 7ED
> Tel: 020 7410 2205
> Fax: 020 7600 1058
> Email: mri...@museumoflondon.org.ukwww.museumoflondon.org.uk
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