Museum API wiki
I’ve been maintaining a publicly-editable wiki, museum-api.pbwiki.com since early 2009. The impetus was the development of an API for a subset of the Science Museum’s collections. I introduced it...
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Keynote: ‘From Strings to Things’, LODLAM Melbourne workshop
Culture Victoria‘s Eleanor Whitworth (@elewhitworth) and Museum Victoria‘s Ely Wallis (@elyw) organised a LODLAM workshop at Melbourne Museum on April 17, 2012. There’s now an event report on the...
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Interview in Museum Identity magazine on open linked data and digital audiences
I was interviewed for Museum ID magazine as part of a series of interviews with the ‘alternative museum establishment’. The online version is accessible at Interview: Mia Ridge – open linked data and...
View ArticleKeynote: Global communities and open cultural data: movements towards linked...
I was invited to Taipei, Taiwan for the ‘eCulture & Open Cultural Data Forum’ by TELDAP (Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Programs), MCN Taiwan and Culturemondo Asia Pacific. Many thanks to...
View ArticlePaper: Where next for open cultural data in museums?
My latest article for Museum Identity magazine, Where next for open cultural data in museums?, is now live online and in the current print issue of Museum-iD 13. Site abstract: “Museums have...
View ArticleKeynote: ‘A Brief History of Open Cultural Data’
I was invited to give a talk (which seemed to turn into a plenary then a keynote along the way) for the GLAM-Wiki 2013 conference. I thought it might be useful to put current discussions around opening...
View Article‘Cosmic Collections’ in the tech press
The ‘Cosmic Collections‘ crowdsourced web mashup competition I ran was picked up by two very cool web developer sites, the Yahoo Developer Network and the Programmable Web. Yahoo Developer Network: A...
View ArticleCosmic Collections: Creating a Big Bang
A paper for Museums and the Web conference in Denver, April 2010. Cosmic Collections: Creating a Big Bang Abstract ‘Cosmic collections’ was a Web site mashup competition held by the Science Museum in...
View ArticleLinking Museums meetup
Somehow I ended up organising a meetup about ‘Linking museums: machine-readable data in cultural heritage‘. I’ve written about it for the UK MCG blog and there’s a write-up of ‘linking museums’ from...
View Article‘Museums meet the 21st century’– OpenTech 2010 talk
I gave a talk at OpenTech 2010 on ‘Museums meet the 21st century‘ – I’ve blogged my slides and notes. Museums meet the 21st century View more presentations from Mia .
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Hack4Europe! UK Winner in the category ‘Audience award’
Owen Stephens and I won the ‘Audience Award’ for our ‘Share What You See’ hack at Europeana’s Hack4Europe! UK held at the British Library in June 2011. Not bad, considering we’d met for the first time...
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Research, design and code: metadata crowdsourcing games for museums
For more information, see the page about my MSc Dissertation: crowdsourcing games for museums. The beta games I made are hosted at Museum Metadata Games (and have recently been updated to include some...
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Keynote ‘Enriching cultural heritage collections through a Participatory...
Image: Library of Congress I was invited to Copenhagen to talk about my research on crowdsourcing in cultural heritage at the 3rd international Sharing is Caring seminar on April 1. I’ve posted my...
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CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowship: ‘Bridging collections with a...
I’ve been awarded a CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin for a project called ‘Bridging collections with a participatory Commons: a pilot with World War One archives’. It...
View ArticleConference paper: Play as Process and Product: On Making Serendip-o-matic
[I keep searching for the PDF programme for the Digital Humanities 2014 conference so I can check our paper abstract, so I thought I might as well post it somewhere easy to find in advance. Also, the...
View ArticleKeynote: ‘Collaborative collections through a participatory commons’, 2014...
I was delighted to be invited to present at New Zealand’s 2014 National Digital Forum conference in Wellington. I was asked to speak on my work on the ‘participatory commons’. As a focus for explaining...
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Lecture: ‘A pilot with public participation in historical research: linking...
Trinity lecture poster As part of my Visiting Research Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room Hub I gave a lecture on ‘A pilot with public participation in historical research: linking lived...
View ArticleWorkshop: Information Visualisation, CHASE Arts and Humanities in the Digital...
I’ve been asked to give a workshop on Information Visualisation for the CHASE Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age training programme in June 2015. The workshop will introduce students to the use of...
View ArticleTalk: ‘Small ontologies, loosely joined’: linked open data for the First...
I presented a paper, ‘Small ontologies, loosely joined’: linked open data for the First World War, in a panel on Linked Open Data and the First World War at Digital Humanities 2015 (based on my...
View ArticleTalk: Planning for big data (lessons from cultural heritage)
Slides for an hour-long talk on Planning for big data (lessons from cultural heritage) for the Association for Project Management’s Knowledge Management SIG event on ‘What does big data mean for...
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