Thursday 6th Oct 2011

Open data in New Zealand

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9614328@N02/6100020828

Paul RoweJoint CEO, Vernon Systems Ltd

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/2627291590

eHive: Collections Management & Public Access

World’s first Software as a Service CMSLaunched in 2008

Data storage platform

Programming interfaces

Wordpress plugins

http://www.flickr.com/photos/waleedalzuhair/2492158122/

Communities

Museum and collection info driven by eHive

Represents 400 museums

Collection records from 70 museums

Sharing data

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/

Sharing data Technical Challenges

Copyright issues

Less control of where your data ends up

eHive supports Creative Commons licences + other categories

One OAUTH key per app or site

Wordpress site for your museum

3rd party application

Regional website which harvest your data

http://www.flickr.com/photos/xtinalamb/61688141/

Open Archives Initiative Harvesting Support

Wordpress site using eHive’s community function

Putting museums on the map

Over 23 million records

Easy results filtering

DigitalNZ: Share & Comment

Record metadata

Organisations building on DigitalNZ’s open data

Guide users to related resources

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amanky/2685820917/

Linking to outside sources

Linking to outside sources

Linking to outside sources

Open access to significant text materials

CC licences, multiple download formats

Connecting rich, trusted resources

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danzen/5615480036/

Trails, not dead-ends

Paul RoweVernon Systemspaul@vernonsystems.comTwitter: armchair_caver

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