Hi from MW2008

[Seedsy]

Hi, just thought i would introduce myself. I'm from Auckland Art
Gallery, New Zealand. Met Mike Ellis at MW2008 today, not a totla
techy so hoping to be able to learn enough to start using Mashups and
releasing info so others can play with our daya. WEbsite curently is
www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz

Good to be here

[Juha van 't Zelfde]

Just thought to make myself known here, since I visited Montreal too
and Mike invited me to this group. My name is Juha van 't Zelfde and I
am manager/coordinator/strategic evangelist of the n8 foundation in
Amsterdam. We work for the collective of Amsterdam museums, thinking
about ways of getting young adults (18-35) connected and involved.
This is mostly done by public event (Museum Nights and Friday night
openings), but we use the Web and interactive media to enhance and
improve the experience on the one side, and stimulate a return and
create a relationship on the other. Some might have seen our
demonstration on Saturday, others can check out www.n8.nl.
Unfortunately there is not much information in English, but there is
still enough to see to get an idea.

[Juha van 't Zelfde]

I also have a blog about broad developments in the museum world,
ranging from architecture to the Web.

www.museumlab.org

[Jim O'Donnell]

Hi everyone,

I've already posted this on the Museums Computer Group list, so apologies to anyone who's getting this twice but Mike suggested I post it here too.

Anyway, we've added OpenSearch (http://opensearch.org) to the National Maritime Museum collections, which means that listings of objects on our collections site are now available as RSS feeds. Which means, in turn, that you can do cool things like plot them on google maps:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http:%2F%2Featyourgreens.org.uk%2Ftestapps%2FrssToGeoRSS.kml&ie=UTF8&z=2

Basically, any search of our collections, plus almost any page that generates a list of records, is now available as an RSS 2 feed, extended with some Dublin Core terms to cover fields beyond the basic RSS title, link and description. I've got some links to examples on my blog: http://eatyourgreens.org.uk/archives/2008/04/opening_up_muse.html

It'd be really interesting to see what sort of uses people might put this data to.

Jim

Jim O'Donnell
Senior Web Developer
National Maritime Museum
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Greenwich
London SE10 9NF

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