Published on July 28th, 2015 | by Adrian Stevenson
Due to the many changes within Jisc following the Wilson Review, we no longer have the resources to support the WW1 API and example interfaces developed as part of the project. The original project ceased in ... Read More →
Published on May 10th, 2013 | by Adrian Stevenson
(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 Adrian Stevenson
(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 Adrian Stevenson
(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 Adrian Stevenson
(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’ – http://ww1app.discovery.ac.uk Historypin interface developed in conjunction with ‘We Are What We Do’. We’ve been busily working ... Read More →
Published on March 12th, 2013 | by Adrian Stevenson
(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 →
