Comments on: 'Mashing up' at the UK Museums on the Web Conference 2008

By: Dipity Timeline Of IWMW Events « UK Web Focus

Dipity Timeline Of IWMW Events « UK Web Focus — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:27:45 +0000

[...] SImile software. This software is being used to drive a number of timeline displays, such as the example created by Frankie Roberto at the recent Mashed Museum 08 [...]

By: The Mashed Museum Event « UK Web Focus

The Mashed Museum Event « UK Web Focus — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:14:22 +0000

[...] the Web 2008 conference. Further information on the event is available on the MashedMuseum wiki. Frankie Roberto has already written a blog post on his use of Freebase (for providing structured access to [...]

By: Mashed Museum 2008 « electronic museum

Mashed Museum 2008 « electronic museum — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:24:20 +0000

[...] Roberto did some very cool stuff with Freebase (my coverage here) and the MIT Simile [...]

By: Frankie Roberto’s weblog » Blog Archive » Making sense of cross-museum collections websites

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:18:16 +0000

[...] I mentioned in my last post, I attended the UK Museums on the Web conference this week. As well as taking part in the mashup [...]

By: Seb Chan

Seb Chan — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:25:56 +0000

Cool . . . . I’ve logged a request with our archivist to send me a spreadsheet of everything we’ve done (at least since we moved to our current building in 1988 . . . ). with lukc I’ll upload PHM stuff in the next little while . . . .

Could be really interesting to track the big travelling exhibitions around the world . . . .

Now it would also be possible to parse everyone’s PDF annual reports and pull out visitation figures for each of the more recent ones too . . . . (Here’s something that has just gone up from our government as a beta labs product . . . http://publications.nsw.gov.au/)

By: Frankie Roberto

Frankie Roberto — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:02:08 +0000

Oh, I’ve also now added a ’subjects’ field, where you can specify what the exhibition is about (through links to other Freebase topics). This could be pretty powerful.

By: Frankie Roberto

Frankie Roberto — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:50:52 +0000

Hi Seb,

There are some standard fields that are already included by default on the Exhibition type:

* name
* Also known as
* article (ie description)
* image(s)
* Web link(s)

I might have a go at adding the web links to the pop-up bubble you get on the timeline later in the week.

By: Seb Chan

Seb Chan — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:53:45 +0000

Hi Frankie

That’s really cool. I’ll get one of my team to go and add all the PHM exhibitions.

You should add an exhibition URL field (and/or a blurb field) so everything can link back to historical exhibition information. Or maybe we will! (Was there a reason why you didn’t?)

Seb

By: Kirrily Robert

Kirrily Robert — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:35:18 +0000

Frankie, this is a great demo! You might consider posting about it on the Freebase developers’ mailing list, especially if you’re looking for feedback.

I’d really like to work with you to flesh out the Cultural Heritage domain a bit more, if you’re interested.