Museums and the Web

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Museums and the web 2013

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Using an RDF Data Pipeline to Implement Cross Collection Search

Keywords: 
semantic indexing
Keywords: 
solr
Keywords: 
RDF
Keywords: 
cross-discipline
Keywords: 
Semantic Federation
Keywords: 
collaboration, multi-institutional, data sharing, user submitted content, research, on-line community
Abstract: 

The Missouri History Museum launched a first version cross-collection search in mid-2010.  That implementation uses SOLR as a search engine with data from multiple domains (objects, archives, and photo collections) indexed to SOLR documents with various PHP scripts.  Although some attempts were made to map data values to specific locations, dates, and subjects, most of the data is ind

Type: 
Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches
Site: 
http://collections.mohistory.org/search
Authors: 
David Henry

Tagging

Type: 
Session
Date & Time: 
Apr 7 2011 - 1:00pm
Location: 
Commonwealth A/B

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

Words, words, words. Whose words, why words, how words? Tags are just language but who assigns them, how and where, in in what relations to existing description is all critical to understanding, and ultimately to using, tags. In this session tagging discussion advances from art to science.