Open Context Developments
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The document discusses the Open Cultural Heritage Platform project, which aims to provide open source tools to help cultural institutions document, share, and integrate their collections online. The project will integrate Omeka and Open Context, two open source content delivery systems. The new tools offered through Open Context that will be included are faceted browsing, informed discovery, item views with high resolution images and user tagging, as well as social context analysis and Atom feeds to make content easily reusable across applications.
Open Context Developments
- 1. Open Cultural Heritage Platform … will publish, implement and document fully localizable, open source software for the open sharing of cultural heritage in key institutions from the partner countries.
- 2. Open Cultural Heritage Platform The goal of this project is to provide easy-to-use tools for cultural institutions to: Document their cultural heritage collections Integrate their collections with content from other organizations Syndicate their content across the Web
- 3. Open Cultural Heritage Platform This will be achieved through an integration of two open source content delivery systems: Omeka http://www.omeka.org Open Context http://www.opencontext.org
- 4. Open Cultural Heritage Platform Integration is currently in development. New tools offered by Open Context, which will be built into the Open Cultural Heritage Platform, include the following:
- 5. Faceted browsing Informed discovery Drill into a project Powers web-services
- 6. Item view High-resolution images Linked to other objects User can tag item or groups of items
- 7. Open Context’s Social Context Open Context provides useful feedback about relations between people and content and the social impact of content.
- 8. Open Context Atom Service Atom makes content convenient to repurpose and use in different applications such as Google Maps.
- 9. Mashups for Integration “ On the fly” mash-ups. Users can “pipe” data from different sources to see larger view. Ad hoc aggregation of content from diverse resources Experiment with content to identify semantic linkages Standards still important, but can start simple and may require less “semantic overhead”
- 10. Alternate Visualizations Atom feeds can be easily repurposed and transformed to provide alternative visualizations of content, including in GoogleEarth.