Cooliris-enabled scrapbook

tim — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:08:08 +0000

There’s more 3D goodness for you to enjoy now that the Mapping our Anzacs scrapbook is Cooliris-enabled. If you have Cooliris installed, you’ll notice that the Cooliris icon on your browser toolbar lights up when you visit the site. Just click on the icon to browse all the photos posted to the scrapbook on a glorious 3D wall.

Scrapbook posts in 3D

(If you don’t have Cooliris then go and get it. It can be used both in Internet Explorer and Firefox, though you’ll probably need to have admin rights to install for IE.)

Having given the 3D treatment to digitised files from the National Archives of Australia and portrait images from the Australian Dictionary of Biography, it wasn’t too hard to do. The scrapbook is a Tumblr site and the api makes it easy to extract all the photos. So I created a php file to gather all the details and then write them to a media-rss file. Then it was just a matter of inserting a link to it in the scrapbook.

Code follows:



if ($_GET['start']) {

$start = $_GET['start'];

} else {

$start = 0;

}

$url = "http://our-anzacs.tumblr.com/api/read?start=$start&num=50&type=photo&filter=text";

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

if (!$result) {

echo "cURL error number:" .curl_errno($ch);

echo "cURL error:" . curl_error($ch);

exit;

}

curl_close($ch);

$dom = new DOMDocument();

@$dom->loadHTML($result);

$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);

$attrs = $xpath->evaluate("//posts/@total[1]");

foreach ($attrs as $attr) {

$total = $attr->nodeValue;

}

$num_pages = ceil($total/50);

$start_next = $start+50;

$start_previous = $start-50;
echo "n";

echo "n";

echo "n";

echo "n";

echo "Photos posted to the Mapping our Anzacs scrapbookn";

echo "
http://our-anzacs.tumblr.comn";

if ($start_previous >= 0) {

echo "";

}

if ($start_next <= $total) {

echo "";

}

$posts = $xpath->evaluate("//post/@id");

foreach ($posts as $post) {

$id = $post->nodeValue;

$url = "http://our-anzacs.tumblr.com/post/$id";

$photos = $xpath->evaluate("//post[@id='$id']/photo-url[@max-width='500']/text()");

foreach ($photos as $photo) {

$photo_500 = $photo->nodeValue;

}

$photos = $xpath->evaluate("//post[@id='$id']/photo-url[@max-width='250']/text()");

foreach ($photos as $photo) {

$photo_250 = $photo->nodeValue;

}

$nodes = $xpath->evaluate("//post[@id='$id']/photo-caption/text()");

foreach ($nodes as $node) {

$caption = $node->nodeValue;

preg_match("/View details fors+([ws,-]*)/", $caption, $matches);

$names = explode(", ", $matches[1]);

$name = "$names[1] $names[0]";

}

echo "n";

echo "$idn";

echo "n";

echo "
$urln";

echo "n";

echo "n";

echo "n";

}

echo "n";

echo "n";

?>

MoA buttons galore

tim — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:41:40 +0000

Mapping our Anzacs, in case you don’t know, provides a Google map interface to the 375,000+ WWI service records held by the National Archives of Australia. Amongst other other things, you can add scrapbook posts to individual entries and create tributes. It’s meant to encourage exploration, so go on… explore!

If you’ll do, you’ll notice that there are direct links into the National Archives’ database RecordSearch. However, there are currently no links going to other way. Why does this matter? Well perhaps you’d like to use NameSearch to find an individual record, but then add a scrapbook post in Mapping our Anzacs. Up until now you had to find them all over again. But not any more…

Introducing our new range of ‘View in Mapping our Anzacs’ buttons:

For the discerning Firefox devotee we have a Greasemonkey userscript which adds a button to the RecordSearch item details page.
For fashion-challenged IE user we have a bookmarklet. Just right click on this link – View in Mapping our Anzacs – and save it as a favourite in your ‘Links’ folder (you may need to enable the ‘Links’ toolbar first by checking Tools > Toolbars > Links.)

Yes, it’s true… you could use the Bookmarklet with Firefox (just drag it to your bookmarks toolbar), but Greasemonkey is so much more chic.

Once you’re fully button-enabled just head into RecordSearch, find an item in series B2455 (the WWI service records) and click! Hurrah! You will be instantly transported to Mapping our Anzacs.

You can test out your new button by heading here:

B2455, WRAGGE C L E

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Cooliris-enabled scrapbook

MoA buttons galore