Culture GlobeHackathon Project

Petr Pridal (Klokan Technologies)Rainer Simon (Austrian Institute of Technology)

Anja Jentzsch (Freie Universität Berlin)Ulrike Krabo (Austrian Library Network and Service Ldt.)

Elaheh Momeni (University of Vienna - Faculty of Computer Science)

Our target:

• Spatio-temporal browsing trough the Europeana metadata with a 3D visualization in a web browser

• 100% open-source and open data project

• Try new cutting-edge technology

• Use the Europeana OpenSearch API

Future?

• JSONP Europeana API, PLEASE !!!

• Improvement of the client: from a “fast baked” prototype into an useful tool ...

• Server side ranking: sorting of the results

• Semantic search improvements

• Sorting by popularity / number of visits?

• MapRank Search: specialized ranking for large map collection

Open Source project

• Complete source code on GitHub repository

• README with instructions

• Closure Toolset developement

• In this moment a prototype

• Can be improved and turned into a product

The results:

http://www.github.com/cultureglobeSource code:

Petr Pridal (Klokan Technologies)Rainer Simon (Austrian Institute of Technology)

Anja Jentzsch (Freie Universität Berlin)Ulrike Krabo (Austrian Library Network and Service Ldt.)

Elaheh Momeni (University of Vienna - Faculty of Computer Science)