Paul Hagon

Category: Museums

  • New York then and now

    I’ve been playing around with yet another Flickr Commons then and now project, this time using the images of New York from 1935-1938 from the New York Public Library.  The process for this has been a little bit different to the previous then and now demonstrations.  The images that have been posted don’t have any…

  • New Zealand then and now

    On November 27 the National Library of New Zealand became the sixteenth institution to join The Commons.  In what was perfect timing, within days Google launched their streetview service for New Zealand.  Of course I’ve modified my then and now mashup to include the images on Flickr from the National Library of New Zealand.  They’ve…

  • Flickr commons in my neighbourhood

    Following on from my previous then and now Flickr commons meets streetview demonstration, I started to think of how could I bring that experience to a user based upon their current location – take out the streetview and replace it with a real life view.  Can you provide an immersive experience for a user, giving them…

  • 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.  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…

  • 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,…