I should begin this first post by providing an explanation of the purpose of this site and a brief background into what prompted me to start this project and what I plan to achieve. I have outlined a brief context in the About section.
I didn’t want to create a new blog discussing new initiatives in the cultural sector. These topics are already being discussed by experts in the arena. e.g. The MW08 conference and excellent blogs such as the New Media Initiative and Sebastian Chan’s Fresh + New . Instead what I would like to do here is to draw on existing research and provide mostly a technical perspective into tackling some of these issues. Such as aggregation, scrapping, federated search, speed, scalability, UI and use of social data.
I will be experimenting with existing museum data sources and different technologies to hopefully start a creative discussion between developers currently working on similar issues. I will attempt to describe everything in detail and I hope readers will contribute to my posts by providing queries and feedback.