Category: Libraries
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State Library of New South Wales Flickr mashup
The State Library of New South Wales have joined Flickr commons, which means that with one small change to my code, I can reproduce my “then and now” mashup for their collection. Â There isn’t a great deal of photos that have been geo-tagged as yet, but that’s the beauty of this – anyone can go…
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Powerhouse street view mashup
Recently I’ve been thinking of more and more ways that museums and libraries can expose their collections via other methods besides typing a search term into a search box – yawn… Like most Australians I’ve been playing around with the street view data Google have added in for Australia cities and it got me thinking,…
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Tate Liverpool iPhone tours
With the recent introduction (for many countries) of Apple’s iPhone, many museums and galleries have been looking at ways they can use the web browser and multimedia player capabilities of the device to enhance the content they deliver.
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Books alive
The Australian Council for the Arts have just released their annual Books Alive list of 50 books you can’t put down. Books Alive is an initiative to encourage people to read. On their website they have a list of where you can purchase the books, but they haven’t included a list of which libraries stock the…
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Libraries, museums and del.icio.us
Today we released an upgrade to Picture Australia. Most of the improvements were behind the scenes improvements involving building the framework for features that will be implemented in a few months. Â One feature that was implemented was an “Add to del.icio.us” link. Â A “share this” link is nothing new for any news site, blog…