Published on May 10th, 2013 | by Lee Baylis
(Image: Victory Loan Poster © IWM (Q 61339) ) A lot of my previous articles reflected the state of play at the time they were written, so I wanted to write one final article summarising the ... Read More →
Published on May 10th, 2013 | by Lee Baylis
(Image: Wanted immediately for the Royal Navy, © Museum of London) In this post, I’d like to go into some technical detail regarding point five in our strategy — helping institutions to set up their own ... Read More →
Published on May 3rd, 2013 | by Lee Baylis
(Image: Belgian artillery officer in his office controlling his Batteries by map and ‘phone. © IWM (Q 2950) ) At the heart of our API lies our mappings infrastructure. It is two-fold: Queries are issued to ... Read More →
Published on April 2nd, 2013 | by Lee Baylis
(Image: It’s Our Flag © IWM (Art.IWM PST 12254) ) Making a Choice In my last post, I discussed some search API technologies, and a harvesting one, plus the possibility of being given offline metadata by ... Read More →
Published on March 25th, 2013 | by Adrian Stevenson
We’re pleased to announce the release of our two prototype interfaces: Interface developed in conjunction with ‘Mickey and Mallory’. (Please note this web address may change, so please check back if bookmarking) Historypin interface developed in ... Read More →
Published on March 12th, 2013 | by Lee Baylis
(Image: Photo of men from the 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment digging a trench, The Great War Archive, University of Oxford) What Are These APIs Anyway? My background is really that of a generic developer, so when ... Read More →
Published on February 21st, 2013 | by Adrian Stevenson
We’ve been busily working on our discovery layer interfaces since last November. We’re almost there but there’s still bugs we keep spotting, partly due to the nature of the data: the fact that we’re handling all ... Read More →
Published on January 14th, 2013 | by Adrian Stevenson
We’re very close to finishing the WW1 project now, and we’re aiming to make our interfaces available very soon. There are a number of things we haven’t quite managed to pull off in the time available, ... Read More →
Published on December 5th, 2012 | by Adrian Stevenson
I gave a four minute talk at the excellent UK Museums and the Web 2012 ‘Strategically Digital’ event last Friday. It was a great set of speakers, so I was really pleased to be part of ... Read More →
Published on November 16th, 2012 | by Adrian Stevenson
Just a quick post to say that I’ll be doing a very short 4 minute open mic talk on the WW1 project at this years ‘UK Museums and the Web 2012: Strategically Digital‘ conference to be ... Read More →
