[Apologies for cross posting my reply!] Congratulations Stephen, this looks great. It also overlaps beautifully with a database we've just (very belatedly, like more than 2 years belatedly) put online, at www.photolondon.org.uk/default.asp. This is built on the huge work undertaken by photographic historian David Webb, who has collated biographical information on thousands of people in the photographic industry in Victorian London. I would love to investigate with you how we might link the two datasets together (I'm already itching to RESTify the search engine). Looking through the list of exhibitors (http://erps.dmu.ac.uk/exhibitors.php?char1s=A&techyn=all) and comparing it to our own I find some matches (e.g. Jessie Akhurst), though not as many as I expected. I'm sure, though, that there must be plenty of people and organisations in both sites.
Given the stats and feedback we're getting from our site, I wouldn't be surprised if you find that a lot of your traffic comes from genealogy sites/interests. I'm mulling over how to maximise the benefits of this (after all, museums should be serving this aspect of social history research as much as anything), but one thing that has occurred to me is to look into hooking the site directly into the search engines of genealogy websites. Cheers, Jeremy Jeremy Ottevanger Web Developer, Museum Systems Team Museum of London Group 46 Eagle Wharf Road London. N1 7ED Tel: 020 7410 2207 Fax: 020 7600 1058 Email: jottevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk www.museumoflondon.org.uk Museum of London is changing. Visit www.museumoflondon.org.uk to find out more. Explore how the Great Fire shaped the city www.museumoflondon.org.uk/londonsburning Jack the Ripper and the East End a major new exhibition at Museum in Docklands, opens 15 May Before printing, please think about the environment -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Brown Sent: 01 May 2008 12:08 To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915 Apologies for cross posting. Im pleased to announce the availability of 'Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915' http://erps.dmu.ac.uk <http://erps.dmu.ac.uk/> This is an online research database of over 45,000 records from the annual exhibition catalogues of the Photographic Society, London, published between 1870 and 1915. It contains detailed records of all the exhibits, plus information about exhibitors, judges, hanging and selecting committee members. It also contains reproductions of all the catalogue pages and all the pictures of the photographs that were printed in the catalogues, plus further pictures and reviews of the exhibitions published in the contemporary publication Photograms of the Year. The interface allows visitors to browse the data, pictures and the catalogue pages, to search for specific information and to refine and export search results. 'Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915' was developed with the assistance of an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) resource enhancement grant. For further information please contact Stephen Brown: sbrown at dmu.ac.uk _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
