Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
19
http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/2009/04/27/culture-grid-starts-
to-take-shape/.
20
www.jisc.ac.uk/contentalliance.
21
www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/strategy/ithaka-case-studies-in-sustainability/
case-studies/SCA_BMS_CaseStudy_CCH.pdf.
22
All 12 case studies are available from www.ithaka.org/
ithaka-s-r/strategy/ithaka-case-studies-in-sustainability.
23
The original guidelines were present on the People's Network site, but the URL
(www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/content/technical.asp) no longer functions. The
support service run by the UKOLN and the Arts and Humanities Data Service
had a (still functioning) website at www.ukoln.ac.uk/nof/support/.
24
http://books.google.com/.
25
www.bl.uk/britishnewspapers.
26
A good list is at www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/online/propaganda.html.
27
A useful final report highlights some of the key obstacles in creating the portal:
http://edina.ac.uk/projects/vsmportal/docs/VSMFinalReport.pdf. In the USA,
the Aquifer initiative (www.diglib.org/aquifer/) has looked at tackling many of
the same issues. There are many others.
28
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface.
29
www.flickr.com/do/more/.
30
www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/api/. The news link from this URL
gives examples of the different ways in which the API has been exploited, e.g.
creating applications for the iPhone, or various different interfaces which look
at particular aspects of the collection.
31
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/.
32
http://concordia.atlantides.org/. Information on the standards is available at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRSS and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KML.
33
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is available at
www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/, and the Great War Archive is embedded within
this at www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/. The Flickr group for the Great War
Archive is at www.flickr.com/groups/greatwararchive/.
34
http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/.
35
http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/hallOfFame. The Old Bailey Online project
has also developed a wiki (www.hrionline.ac.uk/obp-wiki/index.php/
Main_Page), which allows users to add contextual information, for example
'biographical material about individuals and families who are documented in
the Old Bailey Proceedings and Ordinary's Accounts'.
