Managing documents with Omeka
Earlier on in the year we started a project which involves digitizing and making available online a large number of newspaper clippings. We had originally looked at Greenstone for the collections management software but it seemed too clunky for what we needed. Likewise Drupal wasn’t ideal as it needed a fair bit of customization in [...]
Sound map: the Caledonian Road
This is a pretty cool project. I’d like to do something similar, perhaps following the route of Doung Jahangeer’s CityWalk. Anyone keen to collaborate, leave a comment. Award winning broadcaster and oral historian Alan Dein walks down the Caledonian Road, telling the story of the north London street through the voices of the people who [...]
A guide to Durban’s architecture and history
Professor Kearney has recently published a guide to Durban’s rich architectural and cultural heritage. The main objective of the publication is to draw attention to the fragile richness of Durban’s architectural legacy – a distinctly non-renewable resource – and to introduce visitors and locals to an extraordinary polyglot past. The guide deals with the natural [...]
Web 3.0?
As most of our work is done online it is important to keep abreast of developments on and about the Internet. Here is a recent documentary by Kate Ray exploring the potential and limits of what is known as ‘The Semantic Web’ or Web 3.0. Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo. In a similar [...]
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