Post on 17-Jan-2018
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The Future is Coming, and it’s User-shaped!
Mike PringleEnglish Heritage
Modernising Government
“A new target of all dealings with government being
deliverable electronically by 2008”
Modernising Government White Paper March 1999
Multiple Data Formats
• General Information• National Monuments Record• Listed Buildings• Photographic Archives• Spatial Information• Data Standards
Multiple Platforms
• Oracle• Access• SQL Server• Classic ASP• .NET
Information Architecture
ViewFinder I of E
Thesaurus
PastScape
English HeritageMain Site
Information Architecture
ViewFinder IoE
Thesaurus
PastScape
English HeritageMain Site
Data Set Data Set Data Set Data Set
Co-ordination
• Data Standards• Meta-data• Thesaurus Terminology• ICT Standards• Interoperability
Portal Potential...
Homepage of Sven Haremoppa
Swedish Ungulates:•Moose•Reindeer
Portal Potential...
Homepage of Sven Haremoppa
Swedish Ungulates:•Moose•Reindeer
Homepage of Bruce Dannunder
Australian Monotremes:•Echidna•Duck-billed Platypus
Portal Potential...
Homepage of Sven Haremoppa
Swedish Ungulates:•Moose•Reindeer
Homepage of Bruce Dannunder
Australian Monotremes:•Echidna•Duck-billed Platypus
Mammals Portal
AustralianSwedish
HoofedEgg-laying
Restaurants Portal
???? Portal
By countryBy class
VegetarianExotic
Homepage of Sven Haremoppa
Swedish Ungulates:•Moose•Reindeer
Homepage of Bruce Dannunder
Australian Monotremes:•Echidna•Duck-billed Platypus
Mammals Portal
AustralianSwedish
HoofedEgg-laying
Portal Potential...
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Purpose - Why?
ViewFinder I of E
Thesaurus
PastScape
English HeritageMain Site
Purpose - Why?
Tourists to England Professionals School Children And so on….
ViewFinder I of E
Thesaurus
PastScape
English HeritageMain Site
Purpose - Why?
• Not What?
Purpose - Why?
• Not What?• …but Who!
Demonstration
• Two examples of EH online projects that provide novel interfaces to multiple data sources.
Demonstration
• PastScape - the National Monuments Record online: www.pastscape.org
Demonstration
• EH Illustrated Heritage Thesaurus Online:
www.heritage-thesauri.org.uk