Category: Museums

  • Colours of a tag

    I’ve been expanding upon the experiments I presented at VALA earlier this year where I built a search by colour application for the National Library of Australia. Out of curiosity I built the same search by colour application using approximately 35,000 images from Flickr Commons. Since building these applications I’ve been wondering, do certain topics…

  • Gallipoli Twitter

    For the past few months I’ve been following a blog set up by the Australian War Memorial where they are recreating the diary of Herbert Vincent Reynolds by posting the entires from his diary on the days they were written. Herbert Vincent Reynolds enlisted in the First World War with the 4th Field Ambulance and…

  • Everything I know about cataloguing I learned from watching James Bond

    At VALA2010 I did a presentation titled ‘Everything I know about cataloguing I learned from watching James Bond’. What I was trying to explore was the notion of how searching for objects is changing. We are now so used to full text search for books, journals and newspapers that the traditional forms of metadata, such at…

  • Common Ground

    I’m really excited to be playing a small part in the upcoming Common Ground meet up to be held on the 2nd-3rd October 2009. Common Ground is a global meet up celebrating the Commons on Flickr to be held by as many of the institutions in the Commons as possible. The institutions will be projecting…

  • How libraries can learn from Twitter

    This morning an interesting Tweet arrived on a subject that I’ve been thinking about quite a lot lately: there seem to be more people using twitter apps than twitter web. What is twitter doing wrong? @katykat In April 2008, ReadWriteWeb carried out a study How We Tweet: The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients that showed…