Open Context Developments

Open Context Developments

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  Open Cultural HeritagePlatform … will publish, implement and document fully localizable, open source software for the open sharing of cultural heritage in key institutions from the partner countries.
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  Open Cultural HeritagePlatform 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
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  Open Cultural HeritagePlatform 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
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  Open Cultural HeritagePlatform Integration is currently in development. New tools offered by Open Context, which will be built into the Open Cultural Heritage Platform, include the following:
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  Faceted browsing Informeddiscovery Drill into a project Powers web-services
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  Item view High-resolutionimages Linked to other objects User can tag item or groups of items
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  Open Context’s SocialContext Open Context provides useful feedback about relations between people and content and the social impact of content.
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  Open Context AtomService Atom makes content convenient to repurpose and use in different applications such as Google Maps.
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  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”
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  Alternate Visualizations Atomfeeds can be easily repurposed and transformed to provide alternative visualizations of content, including in GoogleEarth.