Nuts and Bolts Lecture at UCL

Claire Sussums gave an excellent lecture on Data standards and organisation required for running major museum internet projects. She used as an example the Exploring 20th Century London project. The major technical problem is to get data from disparate sources and databases into a common standard acceptable to all. The major creative problem is to make the accumulation of data meaningful - this is partly done by creating 4 main ways into the data:

Timeline
Theme
Place
Search

Now there are 11 partners in the project - still this does create a still very partial data set for example I searched for clapton sport - hoping to find information on the first black professional footballer, but all I got were objects which had jewish affinities, simply because the jewish museum has a great collection of portraits of ordinary people

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