tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31452346.post6876348973013227145..comments2023-08-01T16:38:30.996+01:00Comments on The Doofer Call: Hakia, semantic enrichment, and EDLJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11209315592056360247noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31452346.post-51444596357015868962008-06-24T22:59:00.000+01:002008-06-24T22:59:00.000+01:00Hi Tom,Thanks very much for this, it's really enco...Hi Tom,<BR/><BR/>Thanks very much for this, it's really encouraging news, especially that you're already working with museum data. I'm back from the Hague now where I was bigging up Calais. Just before I went I was playing around with it (although it was hard to experiment until I found the <A HREF="http://sws.clearforest.com/calaisviewer/" REL="nofollow">Calais Viewer</A> - maybe this should go on the Calais front page!)<BR/><BR/>Seb Chan and co did a great job using your service on the Powerhouse Museum's site, and I'm sure other museums will follow. It certainly showed that, even without cultural heritage-specific data, Calais could enriched museum content in a very worthwhile way. <BR/><BR/>For Europeana, Calais is an opportunity to enrich that dataset directly, but it's also a model of the sort of service that Europeana itself could offer, using a dataset of millions of objects from across European museums, libraries and archives. There's a second prototype due in November and it might be a good time now to start a dialogue between Calais and EDL/Europeana - perhaps there's scope for collaboration?Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11209315592056360247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31452346.post-66299207008444181432008-06-23T20:53:00.000+01:002008-06-23T20:53:00.000+01:00Jeremy:Tom Tague from Calais here.I'd like to enco...Jeremy:<BR/><BR/>Tom Tague from Calais here.<BR/><BR/>I'd like to encourage you to jump in and start experimenting with the various semantic enrichment tools. While none of these tools have been developed with the museum / collections community in mind - I do believe they have immediate value to offer as they are. <BR/><BR/>You may have seen the application of Calais at the Powerhouse Museum already (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/australian_museum_uses_open_calais.php) - I think it’s a great example of a pragmatic use of Calais to add value quickly. Rather than waiting until Calais has developed a richer vocabulary – they have taken what it does today and exposed a much richer navigation and exploration capability to their users.<BR/><BR/>The ability to navigate and search collections (and even better – collections of collections) by person, place, organization, etc can add significant value with very little effort (and in the case of Calais - no cost) very quickly. <BR/><BR/>We’ll be partnering with at least one major museum in the upcoming months to extend the Calais vocabulary in the area of collections. In the meantime – feel free to experiment and see what you can make happen today.T Taguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06366444765671333149noreply@blogger.com