blog  A semi-automated conference assistant.

Jun 2022

A couple of weeks ago I went to the excellent Move Or Perish—Scientific Trajectories, Inclusion, And Inequality, And Their Consequences For Transformative Science workshop in Vienna. While getting ready for it, I found myself asking some familiar questions. Who are the speakers? What is their background? How to best contextualise the topics being discussed?

blog  Getting hold of your Flickr collections with Python.

May 2012

Recently I've been a little disappointed with Flickr, the popular online photo-sharing service. Photos gone missing, entire albums disappeared. Not really what you'd like to happen to your photo collection, especially when it's very large and therefore difficult to keep track of what's there and what's not.

blog  Hack4Europe! - Europeana hackathon roadshow, June 2011.

May 2011

Europeana is a multilingual digital collection containing more than 15 million resources that lets you explore Europe's history from ancient times to the modern day. Europeana's API services are web services that allow you to search and display Europeana collections in your website and applications. The folks at Europeana have been actively promoting experimentation with their APIs by organizing 'hackathons'—workshops for cultural informatics developers where new ideas are discussed and implemented.