MW08 - Wild And Wooly Shanty Towns

Slide 1: uniting the shanty towns: data combining across multiple institutions sebastian chan manager, web services powerhouse museum sydney, australia april 10, 2008 museums and the web 2008 montreal

Slide 4: my team also builds . . . .

Slide 10: interactive media social search public facing blogs we do folksonomies pod/vodcasts social network seeding

Slide 12: some ideas 1200 seconds long 94 slides = ~12 seconds per slide today mixing data dealing with reality

Slide 13: caveats: wireframes work in progress prototypes + jet lag + sleeplessness

Slide 14: some people think their websites should be neat

Slide 15: source: richard byers http://www.superlight.tk

Slide 16: source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/triplefivedrew/427322054/

Slide 17: source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joschmaltz/2336836962/

Slide 18: look closer

Slide 19: source :http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/108603287/

Slide 20: mess yes, even in a CMS

Slide 21: source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eugene/51380973/

Slide 22: mess = life = good

Slide 23: but we have a problem

Slide 24: “smoosh” source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliekaffe/74950694/

Slide 25: agree on standards? that should be easy.

Slide 26: letʼs start with calendars how complex can event and exhibition data really be?

Slide 27: same cms different events

Slide 31: different cms different events

Slide 35: no cms different events

Slide 38: RSS phew!

Slide 40: smoosh? hold on a minute! someoneʼs already doing it

Slide 43: how?

Slide 44: source : http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishymom/566394520/

Slide 45: no RSS no iCal

Slide 46: solution:

Slide 47: scrape + aggregated third party feed + nice backend + trust-o-meter = front end interface with miroformats + RSS + GeoRSS + iCal

Slide 49: source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nue/1915712452/

Slide 50: extracting meaning from mess

Slide 52: by hand

Slide 56: by (other) hands

Slide 59: by (other) hands automatically

Slide 60: 11.2 million succesful searches 17,000 per day

Slide 63: open calais

Slide 69: 47,090 objects with tags 271,965 tags 50,792 unique most popular : australia/country 21,289 sydney/city 10,106 united kingdom/country 8,588

Slide 70: parse prune connect people companies places

Slide 71: people

Slide 76: companies

Slide 80: places

Slide 89: not just for us

Slide 90: <item> <title>A1218 Plaque, repousse, copper, made by Elizabeth Soederberg, Sydney, New South Wales, ...</title> <link>http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=173142&amp;site_id=3</link> <enclosure url='http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/images/zoomify/thumbs/101435.jpg' length="2175" type="image/ jpeg" /> <description>A1218 Plaque, repousse, copper, made by Elizabeth Soederberg, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1909</ description> <guid>http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=173142&amp;site_id=3</guid> <location>Sydney Shoal, Papua New Guinea</location> <georss:point>-3.3333333 146.8166667</georss:point> </item> <item> <title>A1219 Salver, cast brass, Emily Leist, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1910</title> <link>http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=173143&amp;site_id=3</link> <description>A1219 Salver, cast brass, Emily Leist, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1910</description> <guid>http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=173143&amp;site_id=3</guid> <location>Sydney Shoal, Papua New Guinea</location> <georss:point>-3.3333333 146.8166667</georss:point> </item> <item> <title>A1220 Plate, repousse, copper, made by Emily Leist, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1905-1915</title> <link>http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=173145&amp;site_id=3</link> <enclosure url='http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/images/zoomify/thumbs/101436.jpg' length="2175" type="image/ jpeg" /> <description>A1220 Plate, repousse, copper, made by Emily Leist, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1905-1915</ description> <guid>http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=173145&amp;site_id=3</guid> <location>Sydney Shoal, Papua New Guinea</location> <georss:point>-3.3333333 146.8166667</georss:point> </item> opensearch feed with georss

Slide 91: source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcbarnicle/18241391/

Slide 92: where am i?

Slide 96: about nsw beta

Slide 102: thank you. sebastian chan manager, web services powerhouse museum sydney, australia sebc@phm.gov.au Fresh + New blog www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog