Hi.George Oates @ukglo Good, Form & Spectacle Ltd. @goodformand glo@gfns.uk

Libraries & Tech For Good, London, 11 July March 2016

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whatsinthelibrary.com

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2 Show the Thing

3 Context

4 Scalabilitywhatsinthelibrary.com

whatsinthelibrary.com

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We call this type of interface a “Spelunker”.

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live site ours

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Big images.

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Content Scaffolding 1. About the thing

2. Themes around the thing

3. Connect to the rest of the collection

4. Connect to the rest of the web

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Great content takes a while.

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• String match subjects Medicine + Medicine.

• Displaying related subjects

• Places and Orgs are online

• Matched people to Wikipedia intro + pic

• New Person IDs collected through VIAF

• Only 50 Authors in 700 field, now matched

• Integrated MeSH subjects

• Integrated Archive tree/metadata

• Available as .JSON

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MOAR DIGITISATION!!!!

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6 websites 10 visualisations 63 68 blog posts 7 code repositories 4 review meetings 2 surprise public toys MeSH browser + MaRC to PostGRES slurper

56 58 flat whites 1 on-site breakfast

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Thanks.George Oates @ukglo Good, Form & Spectacle Ltd. @goodformand glo@gfns.uk

Libraries & Tech For Good, London, 11 July March 2016