Open Objects: So we made a thing. Announcing Serendip-o-matic at One Week, One Tool

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-08-04

Summary:

"Source code at GitHub Serendipomatic - go add your API so people can find your stuff! Check out the site at serendipomatic.org. Update: and already we've had feedback that people love the experience and have found it useful - it's so amazing to hear this, thank you all! We know it's far from perfect, but since the aim was to make something people would use, it's great to know we've managed that ... After five days and nights of intense collaboration, the One Week | One Tool digital humanities team has unveiled its web application: Serendip-o-matic <http://serendipomatic.org>. Unlike conventional search tools, this 'serendipity engine' takes in any text, such as an article, song lyrics, or a bibliography. It then extracts key terms, delivering similar results from the vast online collections of the Digital Public Library of America, Europeana, and Flickr Commons. Because Serendip-o-matic asks sources to speak for themselves, users can step back and discover connections they never knew existed. The team worked to re-create that moment when a friend recommends an amazing book, or a librarian suggests a new source. It’s not search, it’s serendipity.  Serendip-o-matic works for many different users. Students looking for inspiration can use one source as a springboard to a variety of others. Scholars can pump in their bibliographies to help enliven their current research or to get ideas for a new project. Bloggers can find open access images to illustrate their posts. Librarians and museum professionals can discover a wide range of items from other institutions and build bridges that make their collections more accessible. In addition, millions of users of RRCHNM’s Zotero can easily run their personal libraries through Serendip-o-matic. Serendip-o-matic is easy to use and freely available to the public. Software developers may expand and improve the open-source code, available on GitHub. The One Week | One Tool team has also prepared ways for additional archives, libraries, and museums to make their collections available to Serendip-o-matic."

Link:

http://openobjects.blogspot.com/2013/08/so-we-made-thing-announcing-serendip-o.html

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

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oa.new oa.europeana oa.libraries oa.search oa.museums oa.tools oa.floss oa.github oa.glam oa.dpla oa.digital_humanities oa.apps oa.archives oa.flickr oa.hackathons oa.serendip-o-matic oa.ch oa.ssh oa.announcements oa.humanities

Date tagged:

08/04/2013, 08:57

Date published:

08/04/2013, 04:57