After a year in development, the new Portable Antiquities Scheme website and database is now live. The Scheme’s database holds over 500,000 records and about 250,000 photos. These records are contributed by staff, volunteers and the general public. The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a voluntary scheme to record archaeological objects found by members of the [...]
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British Library to archive UK websites
Finally, the British Library has been granted the necessary legal powers to archive websites based in the UK (with .uk domain names and others hosted in the UK). These powers are similar to those that require every publisher in the UK to provide copies of printed publications to the BL. An increasing amount of information [...]
Wiltshire Heritage Museum library and Google Books
Since the appointment of David Dawson as Director of Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society and Wiltshire Heritage Museum in April 2008, the organisation have not rested on their laurels. The Museum’s library has just gone online via Google Books, and they are possibly the first organisation in the world to do it this way. [...]
National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia
This is a quick response to a very good and pleasantly short blog post on Open Objects regarding the conflict caused by Wikimedia scraping high resolution ‘zoomified’ images from the NPG’s website and making them available. I concur with your thoughts. I don’t think Wikimedia is, however, anything other than extremely naive not to have [...]
Archaeopix: a Creative Commons archaeology photo search tool
Alun Salt and I have been working on a new website to help simplify the process of finding archaeology and heritage-related photos that have a Creative Commons license attached to them. Without further ado, introducing… Archaeopix! The homepage features a photo of the day, which we hope to update daily. Clicking “Search” on the navigation [...]
Digital Britain and Collections
What role has Culture (capital C) in Digital Britain? And within Culture, what do digitised collections and content mean to the nation? Perhaps more importantly for the sectors involved in cultural provision (such as museums), can digital collections take part in the Digital Economy in a meaningful way? In January 2009, the UK Government produced [...]
Creative Spaces – some more thoughts
It’s been an interesting day so far on the Museums Computer Group email list. The debate on Creative Spaces has been fast-paced with passion, criticism and defence. I won’t reiterate exactly what has been said, as you could catch up on the threads in the list archive, but I have had some more thoughts that I [...]
lamusediffuse – Libya and the social web
I was recently sent information about a project called “lamusediffuse“, an interesting project which aims to increase global awareness of Libyan museums and their collections via the web. lamusediffuse proposes the use of Social Web tools for the inclusion of not-dominant cultural expressions in the scopes of culture diffusion on the Internet. Accordingly with this [...]
Historyscape: new heritage mashup
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: [...]
Museum of London Online
The Museum of London have been doing some great stuff with their website recently, including an upcoming events RSS feed, and the Google Maps powered Map My London where you can record your own memories in London, and where they are of. Mia has also pointed out that there is now a Museum of London [...]
