{"id":926,"date":"2007-06-27T07:35:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T06:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electronicmuseum.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/27\/mashed-museum-museum-directory\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:05:45","slug":"mashed-museum-museum-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/06\/27\/mashed-museum-museum-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Mashed Museum \/ museum directory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/museumdirectory.gif\" title=\"Mashed museum - museum directory screenshot\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.electronicmuseum.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/museumdirectory.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"Mashed museum - museum directory screenshot\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/electronicmuseum.wordpress.com\/experiments\/museum-directory\/\">posted a page<\/a> about how I built the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mashedmuseum.org.uk\/mm\/museumdirectory\/\">museum directory<\/a> mashup which I demonstrated during my talk at the UK Museums on the Web conference last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This started off as a KML file for displaying UK museums on Google Earth but the natural direction was to push it into a simple framework which queried a couple of web services for pictures and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you&#8217;ll see from my notes, this is <strong>not<\/strong> a complete museum listing and its accuracy is far from guaranteed BUT it hopefully demonstrates something vaguely interesting&#8230;The 24hr museum have just given me a complete CSV file of UK museums which I&#8217;ll munge in when I&#8217;ve got a spare second &#8211; I also hope to extend the app with some more API calls and other bits shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile I&#8217;ve got a frustrating and very weird problem which you may be able to help me with. If you look at the bottom of the mashup you&#8217;ll see there&#8217;s a link to the KML file &#8211; theory is you click on this and the museum listing gets superimposed onto your Google Earth app. Problem is I can&#8217;t get the link to work. The file is 100% absolutely, definitely there when I FTP in. I&#8217;ve renamed it, fiddled with the encoding, checked the syntax, uploaded other files into the same directory, changed the permissions&#8230;but I&#8217;m f*d if I can get the link to work. Anyone got any bright ideas&#8230;? It may save me some sleep&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Yup, Frankie was right, it was indeed a MIME type problem. My hosting co. have now sorted this so the KML link should work. Huzzah. Thanks, Mr. Roberto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted a page about how I built the museum directory mashup which I demonstrated during my talk at the UK Museums on the Web conference last week. This started off as a KML file for displaying UK museums on Google Earth but the natural direction was to push it into a simple framework which &#8230; <a title=\"Mashed Museum \/ museum directory\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/06\/27\/mashed-museum-museum-directory\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mashed Museum \/ museum directory\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}