Collections online 2011 lawrence chiles (national maritime museum)

National Maritime Museum Collections Online 2011

A more active, integrated website
A more visual interface
The data to underpin online and in-gallery services
Improved the search across all collections
More interpretive content - multimedia and links to external resources
Incorporated user-generated content – tags, personal collections
Access to more records – part or whole
A bespoke open-source content management system
Develop tools and policies to promote re-use of data and content
What we wanted to achieve

Connect objects and records across our varied collection
Use inked data to enable connectivity between objects
Help develop the story and relationships across collections
Give objects a growing online identity
A permanent/stable home based on Object IDs
To be conversational
Let people use the data but then start/react to the conversation
If no one knows it’s there...
What we wanted to achieve

Changed the criteria
From ‘Web ready’ to ‘Not for web use’
No images OK
4 basic mandatory fields – ID, title, physical description and credit
Mapped 3 separate collection types
Objects
Charts and Maps
Archive catalogue
Work with what we have got
Data will never be perfect, improve as we go
What we did

Offer different ways to the data
OAI-PMH (for aggregation into Culture Grid and onwards to Europeana)
OpenSearch
XML
Used the principles of linked to data to link out of collections online
AEON – Archival retrieval service through our Archive catalogue
Cabinet – For our print ordering service
WorldCat – Links to publications
Plans to work with Wikimedia commons to enhance authority records (Vessels authority)
Exposed both the SOLR API for ‘traditional’ searching and the SPARQL end-point for linked data
Promoted at Culture and History Hack days in London
What we did - extending in and out

On-gallery experiences
Using Collections Online as a platform for other services – Digital Compass (Compass Lounge), Ship Plan Viewer, Mobile Learning
Promote a collaborative, conversational approach
‘ Help the NMM’ feature on all records
Facilities for user to tagging, create collections, embed etc
Promote use at Hack days
Improve visibility of staff
Continue to release and monitor
1915 Crew lists
Review what is popular to influence digitisation policies
Further collaborations
Going forward

What do you think is the museum sector’s ambition around resource discovery?
Mixed! A growing conversation
Why did you decide to expose your collections data as Linked Data at National Maritime?
It seemed sensible
What did that entail? What barriers did you face and how did you overcome them?
Not that many, people understand the need to make things visible
What benefits have you gained?
Yet to be discovered!
In what ways does the new landscape of linked open data potentially change what is possible for the museums sector?
Telling and exposing more stories
How do you wish to go forward? What are your short- to medium-term plans?
Release more data. Find collaborations
Questions to answer

Strong background image tied to top homepage promotion and featured collections Most popular objects and user created collections Simplified navigation Public asked to contribute knowledge

Strong visual categories Active browse functions

Visual search navigation Actions to do more with results – buy, share, view, tag, save Larger images with multimedia content Core object data with connected internal and external information

Contextual links to internal and external content Public asked to contribute knowledge

Shareable saved searches

Personalised collections

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Collections online 2011 lawrence chiles (national maritime museum)

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