Historyscape: new heritage mashup

Posted by Tom Goskar | Filed under Archaeology, Heritage, History, Web Technology

Alun Salt from ClioAudio has created a new service called Historyscape, which is an RSS feed that grabs user-submitted websites from Netscape which have been tagged with “Ancient”, “Ancient History”, “Archaeology” and “History”. The feed is ordered by the number of votes each item has received.

You can subscribe to Historyscape via this RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Historyscape

Alun is using Yahoo Pipes and Feedburner to create the service. Details about how he did it are also available.

This is a great example of why it is important for heritage organisations to make their data available via web services - you can get people doing amazing things with your data. The possibilities would be endless.

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Permalink | July 2nd, 2007

2 Responses to “Historyscape: new heritage mashup”

  1. Artinthepicture.com Says:
    July 3rd, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    Thx, should be an interesting feed.

  2. Museum Blogging » Blog Archive » Percolations: Museums and Social Networking Sites, Part V Says:
    April 18th, 2008 at 5:36 am

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