Category Archives: open cultural data

Keynote: ‘A Brief History of Open Cultural Data’

Posted on April 13, 2013 by mia

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 cultural data for … Continue reading →

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Paper: Where next for open cultural data in museums?

Posted on March 2, 2013 by mia

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 increasingly been joining the global movement for open … Continue reading →

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Keynote: Global communities and open cultural data: movements towards linked open data in libraries, archives and museums

Posted on October 13, 2012 by mia

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 my hosts and organisers for their hospitality, for the … Continue reading →

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Interview in Museum Identity magazine on open linked data and digital audiences

Posted on July 23, 2012 by mia

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 digital audiences.

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Keynote: ‘From Strings to Things’, LODLAM Melbourne workshop

Posted on April 17, 2012 by mia

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 Culture Victoria blog, Linked Open Data – Melbourne Workshop. I was … Continue reading →

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Museum API wiki

Posted on March 23, 2009 by mia

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 with a post on Open Objects, Get thee to a wiki … Continue reading →

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