Comments on: Image directories by RSS aggregation http://ancientgeeks.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/image-directories-by-rss-aggregation/ Supporting eLearning and research by tinkering with the web Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:38:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Phil Barker http://ancientgeeks.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/image-directories-by-rss-aggregation/#comment-24 Phil Barker Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:41:48 +0000 http://ancientgeeks.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/image-directories-by-rss-aggregation/#comment-24 Thanks Tony, they all look like they merit further investigation. And the SeaDragon demo is very impressive. Phil. Thanks Tony, they all look like they merit further investigation. And the SeaDragon demo is very impressive. Phil.

]]> By: psychemedia http://ancientgeeks.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/image-directories-by-rss-aggregation/#comment-23 psychemedia Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:23:41 +0000 http://ancientgeeks.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/image-directories-by-rss-aggregation/#comment-23 Hi Phil Your post raises some interesting issues relating to something I've been mulling around - how we in the OU can better (re)discover media assets that have been produced for previous Open University courses: Course Content Image Search: http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/011400.html An advantage of getting images out via feeds, is that they can be embedded in a page via a slideshow widget. There are lots of third party ones around, and a couple that are built maybe to (presumably) industry strength - e.g. the slideshow widget: http://www.madb.net/slideshow/ or the carousel widget: http://billwscott.com/carousel/ built on top of the Yahoo/YUI libraries; Or the Googe AJAX Feed API slideshow widget: http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2007/05/ajax-feed-api-slide-show-control.html The SeaDragon tool from Microsoft looks like it could provide an interesting interface over large image collections: http://newteevee.vodpod.com/video/94377-microsofts-sea-dragon-visualization-demo regards tony Hi Phil

Your post raises some interesting issues relating to something I’ve been mulling around – how we in the OU can better (re)discover media assets that have been produced for previous Open University courses:

Course Content Image Search: http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/011400.html

An advantage of getting images out via feeds, is that they can be embedded in a page via a slideshow widget. There are lots of third party ones around, and a couple that are built maybe to (presumably) industry strength – e.g. the slideshow widget:
http://www.madb.net/slideshow/
or the carousel widget:
http://billwscott.com/carousel/
built on top of the Yahoo/YUI libraries;

Or the Googe AJAX Feed API slideshow widget:
http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2007/05/ajax-feed-api-slide-show-control.html

The SeaDragon tool from Microsoft looks like it could provide an interesting interface over large image collections:
http://newteevee.vodpod.com/video/94377-microsofts-sea-dragon-visualization-demo

regards
tony

]]> By: Martin Poulter http://ancientgeeks.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/image-directories-by-rss-aggregation/#comment-22 Martin Poulter Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:57:40 +0000 http://ancientgeeks.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/image-directories-by-rss-aggregation/#comment-22 Thanks a lot for this, Phil. It backs up the point that more academic sites need to get into the spirit of embeddability. Thanks a lot for this, Phil. It backs up the point that more academic sites need to get into the spirit of embeddability.

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