1. Database progress
Project Beowulf

2. What’s been done?
• Content management system built
• Integrate all our sites into one entity
• Search interfaces
• Numismatic interfaces
• Reference works – bibliography
• Controlled vocabulary – EH, MDA etc
• Data capture screens
• Rally and hoard management
• Action control and user permissions
• And what you’ll see in this….

3. How’s it built?
• Fully open source
• Built on a LAMP stack
• Uses Zend Framework
• Uses jQuery for javascript framework
• Fully documented (almost )
• Built just by me with inspiration from others
eg Omeka @ chnm
• It is all about the C.R.U.D!

4. What’s to do?*
• Build Treasure Act module
• Finish image management
• Finish authenticated api for 3rd party reuse
• Hook up to Heritage Gateway
• Install on new servers
• Finish data cleansing [very dull and time consuming ~
1.5 million records to check]
• Train you all
• Finish public data capture interface
• Put a theme on the site
• Beta test
*In no particular order.

6. Image gallery

7. Image overlays - accessible

8. Record

9. Image overlay on records

10. Map
County outline
shown
Public view
obfuscated point

11. Bibliography & comments
Harvard style

12. Statistical analysis

13. Annual report stats

14. Amazon enriched bibliography
Publication data
Data drawn from
Amazon WS
Linked finds

15. Roman ruler bio
Zoom and pan
container for high
res image
Denominations issued
Issuing mints
Latest findspots –
obfuscated for public
view = exact for
registered

16. Early medieval coin guides
Link directly to search

17. Search results
Search term
Export –
context
switched
Results

18. Controlled vocabulary
All these terms can be controlled in the admin
section of the site.
Each one gives the list of terms
Each thesaurus term is explained and linked to a
search.

19. Ascribed cultures

20. Term details
Explanation of
term
Total number of records Link to search

21. Basic search form

22. Nice human readable urls produced
across site
Search
parameter Search term
Data is filtered when input to prevent malicious attacks – eg CSRF,
XSS etc

23. Advanced search form

24. Autocomplete search terms

25. Linked selects – no page refresh

26. Numismatic searches
Linked search
menus from
thesauri
a) Choose denom
b) Configures rulers
c) Choose rulers
d) Configures mints
& Reece period

27. Rally management
Geodata

28. Linked search to rally finds

29. Logged in menu
Link to all finds I have
recorded
Link to all finds recorded by
my institution
Restricted access sections

30. Expanding menus
These will stay expanded for the section
you are currently in.

31. Find entry form

32. Findspot form

33. Coin form
Like search, led data
entry eradicates
mistakes

34. Administering menu options

35. Edit facility

36. Better error reports for debugging
problems

37. Events archive

38. Screen scraped British Museum
calendar - cached

39. Data taken from theyworkforyou

40. Links directly to the Hansard write up
Search term
highlighted

41. Scheme profiles

42. Embedded microformats – allow
generation of address cards etc

43. Metadata schema

44. 3rd party integration
• Twitter – automatically send updates
• Amazon book search – enhance book data
• Delicious book marking – see who has linked to a certain
page
• Akismet – spam monitoring for comments and user names
• Recaptcha on comments forms
• Flickr – consume and upload functions
• Zotero – bibliographic tool for firefox users (brilliant)
• Scrapes data from British Museum using YQL
• Reuses data from British Museum opensearch
• Opencalais term extraction
• Theyworkforyou archives