libraries & tech for good, 11 july 2016 (without notes)
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Hi.George Oates @ukglo Good, Form & Spectacle Ltd. @goodformand [email protected]
Libraries & Tech For Good, London, 11 July March 2016
gfns.uk
whatsinthelibrary.com
whatsinthelibrary.com
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We call this type of interface a “Spelunker”.
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By # of records in category
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By # of digitised things in category
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live site ours
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Show everything. No search box.
Big images.
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Content Scaffolding 1. About the thing
2. Themes around the thing
3. Connect to the rest of the collection
4. Connect to the rest of the web
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Great content takes a while.
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• String match subjects Medicine + Medicine.
• Displaying related subjects
• Places and Orgs are online
• Matched people to Wikipedia intro + pic
• New Person IDs collected through VIAF
• Only 50 Authors in 700 field, now matched
• Integrated MeSH subjects
• Integrated Archive tree/metadata
• Available as .JSON
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MOAR DIGITISATION!!!!
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b11589723
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6 websites 10 visualisations 63 68 blog posts 7 code repositories 4 review meetings 2 surprise public toys MeSH browser + MaRC to PostGRES slurper
56 58 flat whites 1 on-site breakfast
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Thanks.George Oates @ukglo Good, Form & Spectacle Ltd. @goodformand [email protected]
Libraries & Tech For Good, London, 11 July March 2016