I’m on the way to Dublin right now and I’ve just finished my presentation for the session I’m speaking at tomorrow. It is now available on slideshare as I’ve just uploaded it from Gatwick. Probably not that useful without the words to accompany it…. …
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I started this post about 3 weeks ago and forgot all about it. However, one of Tom Goskar’s tweets reminded me about the relaunch of Wessex Archaeology’s website. Like Surrey Archaeology Society’s website, this is another site done with Drupal as the content system and it has been heavily modified to…
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Andrew Larcombe asked me by Twitter yesterday for a feed of images from the database for Surrey. This could be reused on the Surrey Archaeology Society website. Andrew has redeveloped their site using Drupal as the content management system, with jQuery as the javascript framework. They have some nice features (flickr…
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If you’re interested in getting the latest images direct from the Scheme’s database, please feel free to subscribe to the Scheme’s feed: http://www.finds.org.uk/rss/imagefeed.php
When I have finished the database rebuild, we’ll have geo referenced feeds on demand and various other data formats for you to reuse. Enjoy. …
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I’ve been meaning to write about some software that a community member from the detecting forum, UK Detectornet, created a while ago using services provided by Conduit. However other stuff has got in the way. What they have done is to create a toolbar for your browser that allows one to…
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After the Mashed Museum Day at Leicester, I was inspired to try tagging the Scheme’s blogs via the OpenCalais service provided by Reuters (incidentally, the Chairman of our Trustees is rather high up there….) This was done with two plugins created by Dan Grossman:WP Calais Archive Tagger
WP Calais Auto TaggerBoth of…
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david and i are completing an article for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science …. it’s got me wondering about what the ‘general, intelligent reader’ might want to know about museums and the web.i’m thinking we need to answer the following questions:
what is the history of museums on the…
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Several people asked for a copy of my presentation, so here is a pdf of it.
Thanks for the attending/participating! …
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