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Richard Palmer

Senior Web Developer, Digital Media

Is a web developer at the V&A interested in data and systems, and the complicated connections between them. ORCID: 0000-0002-3177-1313

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AI Assisted Collections Exploration

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Building digital reconstructions of complex manuscripts

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International Museum Day 2020: A Voysey Odyssey

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William Morris meets Nintendo

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What V&A objects have you been searching for in 2019

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Linked Art Showcase

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IIIF, WordPress and Shakespeare too.

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What V&A objects have you been searching for in 2018?

Most popular Search Terms (as of today – this post will be updated in the new year with final numbers). As noted last year, this list is of searches where visitors have typed...

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What V&A objects have you been searching for in 2017?

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Surveying the state of site search

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IIIF: Digital Collections in Dialogue

Last week we hosted a showcase providing an introduction to the International Image Interoperability Framework – IIIF (see more here) the opportunities it offers and how it...

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Introducing our Zotero group

As part of our preparatory work before we start re-implementing site search on our website (and further down the line when we look at redeveloping the V&A’s Search the...

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Visualising library catalogues

The recent generous release by the Library of Congress of 25 million MARC records for open use prompted us to re-purpose an existing tool we have written for visualising and...

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Search the Collections – Nightly Updates and More

As regular users may have noticed, there have been some small – but significant changes to the V&A’s Search the Collections (StC) website in the last few months. This...

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IIIF Workshop & Showcase Report

Last week I attended the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) workshop and showcase organised to great effect by the University of Edinburgh & the National...

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Persistent Identifiers for the Humanities (workshop report)

Practical people, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any interest in persistent identifiers, will soon find themselves the victim of broken website links. Keynes (much...

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V&A Collection – Trends Report 2016

UPDATED Post (17 Jan 2017): A slightly revised version of the top 20 searches from 2016. The initial list from before Christmas counted page views for a search, so a visitor...

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Restoring the (Digital) Dead

Over the 20+ years the V&A website has existed, there have been many different approaches taken to displaying our objects to the visitor; from the very first images on the...

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IIIF at the V&A

Museums have been making their collections meta-data available digitally through websites & APIs for some time now (since 2009 for our Search the Collections and the V&A...

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Pokémon Goes to the V&A

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Open Repositories 2016

‘Better it is to get wisdom than gold’ Motto above the original entrance to the V&A As the V&A has recently launched its research institute VARI, and is...

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Planning for V&A Collections API v2

The V&A Collections API launched in 2009 with the development of the award winning Search the Collections website, now providing RESTful access to the V&A collections...

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