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Recently I've been thinking of more and more ways that museums and libraries can expose their collections via other methods besides typing a search term into a search box - yawn… Like most Australians I've been playing around with the street view data Google have added in for Australia cities and it got me thinking, how could this be used by museums and libraries.

Digital New Zealand is an initiative... "This interactive online video mashup uses EditorOne to let visitors create their own short videos using historic video images, still photographs, artifacts, music and audio clips."

German Traces NYC is mobile, augmented reality experience designed to let learners explore German cultural heritage in New York City. The application makes use of archival documents, photographs, and multimedia narratives to bring to life to this significant thread of New York City and United States history.

I've been building a site in my spare time for a friend - it is called The Last Survivors, and focuses on two particular species that are facing extinction. One of the requirements was for the editors of the site to be able to add results from their surveys of these species quickly to a Google Map for embedding in the website. Nothing particularly new in the build there, but I wanted to make sure that the workflow was as seamless as possible and at the same time keep the dev work to a minimum.

For Walker Open Field, we wanted a way to collect community submitted events and display them on our site. We have our own calendar and we discussed whether adding the events to our internal Calendar CMS was the best way, or if using an outside calendar solution was the direction to go. In the end, we decided to do both, using Google Calendar for community events and our own calendar CMS for Walker-programmed events.

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