John StackinScience Museum Group Digital LabHeritage Connector Project HackathonOn 19 November 2021, the Heritage Connector project held a one-day hackathon in partnership with Cogapp.Dec 10, 2021Dec 10, 2021
John StackinScience Museum Group Digital LabOCRguessr: making posters into a guessing game — Science Museum HangmanThis February marked my first Cogapp Company hack day — a day where we set aside our usual work and put our creative energies into…May 28, 2021May 28, 2021
John StackinScience Museum Group Digital LabNever Been SeenAs each object is added to the collection website, you could be the first person to see it online…Jan 7, 2021Jan 7, 2021
John StackinScience Museum Group Digital LabComputer vision and the Science Museum Group CollectionAmazon’s Rekognition service was used to add keyword tags and these are now available as an experimental features within our collection…Apr 3, 2020Apr 3, 2020
John StackinScience Museum Group Digital LabMuseum in a Tab: Chrome ExtensionScience Museum Group Collection Chrome Browser ExtensionMar 22, 2019Mar 22, 2019
John StackinScience Museum Group Digital LabCode and dataOpen source code and data sets produced through the Science Museum Group Digital Lab projects.Jun 22, 2018Jun 22, 2018
John StackinScience Museum Group Digital LabCollections Remix: Ephemera and outputsThe following photographs capture the drawings, wireframes and other ephemera presented by the teams at the end of the Collections Remix…Mar 27, 20181Mar 27, 20181
John StackinScience Museum Group Digital LabReflections on SMG Collection RemixOn 1 March 2018, fifty curators, technologists, educators, creatives, academics, museum professionals and more, braved London’s freezing…Mar 15, 2018Mar 15, 2018
John StackinMCNx LondonTen things I wish I had known ten years agoMuseums are complicated places to work and many of our colleagues aren’t deeply experienced with digital. Here are ten things I’ve learned…Feb 20, 20183Feb 20, 20183
John StackinScience Museum Group Digital LabExploring museum collections online: Some background readingIn 2017 the Science Museum Group relaunched its online collection website. The website consolidated a number of existing websites…Jan 23, 20182Jan 23, 20182