Open Cultural Heritage Platform

… will publish, implement and document fully localizable, open source software for the open sharing of cultural heritage in key institutions from the partner countries.

Open Cultural Heritage Platform

The goal of this project is to provide easy-to-use tools for cultural institutions to:

• Document their cultural heritage collections• Integrate their collections with content from

other organizations• Syndicate their content across the Web

Open Cultural Heritage Platform

This will be achieved through an integration of two open source content delivery systems:

Omeka http://www.omeka.org

Open Context http://www.opencontext.org

Open Cultural Heritage Platform

Integration is currently in development.

New tools offered by Open Context, which will be built into the Open Cultural Heritage Platform, include the following:

Faceted browsing– Informed discovery– Drill into a project– Powers web-services

Item view– High-resolution images– Linked to other objects– User can tag item or groups of

items

Open Context’s Social Context

• Open Context provides useful feedback about relations between people and content and the social impact of content.

Open Context Atom Service

• Atom makes content convenient to repurpose and use in different applications such as Google Maps.

Mashups for Integration• “On the fly” mash-

ups. Users can “pipe” data from different sources to see larger view.– Ad hoc aggregation

of content from diverse resources

– Experiment with content to identify semantic linkages

• Standards still important, but can start simple and may require less “semantic overhead”

Alternate Visualizations

• Atom feeds can be easily repurposed and transformed to provide alternative visualizations of content, including in GoogleEarth.