PostsOur content partners at English Heritage have made over 1000 new resources available to the Magic Studio network through their English Heritage channel. This brings the total number of resources from EH to over 6500.
The content comes via a live SOAP feed from the Heritage Explorer website, meaning that Magic Studio users also benefit from the contextual [...]
Museums
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English Heritage channel tops 6500 resources
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Digital Content for schools: new content upload/API
In partnership with SchoolZone, we are looking for a number of content
collections (images, audio, video) who are willing to make their
material available free of charge to engage with an online network of
80,000 teachers.
If you can provide us with a web feed (Atom, OAI, RSS) or already have
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English Heritage channel now with over 4000 resources
We are delighted to announce that our content partners at English Heritage have now made over 4300 resources available to the Magic Studio network through their English Heritage channel.
The content comes via a live feed from the Heritage Explorer website, meaning that Magic Studio users also benefit from the contextual and metadata information authored by [...] -
Coming Soon: “England’s Past for Everyone” to join Magic Studio
Local history assets from ten English counties are coming to Magic Studio!
England’s Past for Everyone (EPE) is a Heritage Lottery-funded local history project run by the Victoria County History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. EPE is working with academics and local communities to produce a series of paperback books, [...]
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Magic Studio at the MA Conference
For the next couple of days, we’re up in Liverpool at the annual Museums Association Conference and Exhibition. We’re here with our content partners English Heritage to tell everyone about using Gateway to get collection content into classrooms.
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Setting out our (API) stall
There’s a buzz at the moment about API’s and the growing demand for openness to satisfy the demand for the creative re-use of digital assets.
Of course, we are big fans of open API’s. They are incredibly useful because they allow systems to interface with each other, and when used over the web they have he [...] -
Seeking collections for creative re-use in schools
Following on from discussions at the MCG MW2008 conference, we would like to follow up with anyone who is interested in making their collection(s) (image, audio and video assets) available to schools free of charge for educational re-use.
The Magic Studio Pro network has been developed as a means of delivering digital assets from the cultural [...] -
Magic Studio at UKMW2008
We were at UK Museums and the Web 2008 last week. Mia Ridge has done a great job of writing up the event on her blog so there’s no need to duplicate that here! Also, there are some great pictures on Flickr tagged UKMW08.
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Setting the Standard
Metadata. If you look up the definition on wikipedia, it says “data about data”. Fair enough, I suppose. Why use more than three words when three will do.
However, ask your average user to explain what metadata is and you may well get a much shorter answer, if you get an answer at all. Does this [...] -
Congressional Collections
It’s old news now – over a week since the original announcement on the Library of Congress blog – but we’re excited about the partnership between the LoC and Flickr.
It’s not just the fact that this pilot project is bringing 3000 of the 14 million photographic images to a new public LoC Flickr page.
The licencing [...]