Presentation by Brian Fuchs of the Social Computing Group Imperial college; software designer for the Making Europe Virtual Exhibit

1. Leiden
29 Oct 2010
Inventing Europe
Virtual Exhibit
Dynamic Content
Brian Fuchs
Computing
Imperial College

2. Dynamic Content
= Content from other websites

3. Dynamic Content
 Stays on your website
 Selected by you
 Changes when you change your website

4. Similarity Widget
 Uses Rss ( Really Simple Syndication)
 Works like an Rss reader, e.g. Google
Reader
 Scores items based on number of
keywords supplied for each item.

5. Why Rss?
 Gives people an easy way to find out
what’s new on your website.
 Used by millions ( )
 Digitise once!
 Collaborate!

6. Our Rss

7. A page with the similarity widget

8. Detail view with link to originator

9.  Originating Website

10. How it works….
 We publish keywords for each page on our
website.
 A contributing Museum makes rss for our virtual
exhibit and publishes it on a website (theirs or
ours).
 Museum gives us the url (link) to their rss feed
for our virtual exhibit.
 Our similarity widget on our website reads their
rss feed and displays their images with a link
back to their website.

11. Contributing: The Easy Way
 Fill out a form on Googledocs
 For each object you want to publicise:
 Links to webpages and images on your site.
 Keywords selected from a list supplied by the
virtual exhibit.
 We make an rss feed from this.
 We publish the rss feed.

12. Contributing: The Hard Way
 Talk to the IT person who runs your CMS
 Is rss available?
 Give IT guy a list of objects with
 Links to web pages and images
 Keywords selected from the virtual exhibit
webpage.

13. An overview…

14. Thank You