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.1 min read·Dec 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…1 min read·May 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…1 min read·Jan 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…3 min read·Apr 3, 2020----
John StackinScience Museum Group Digital LabMuseum in a Tab: Chrome ExtensionScience Museum Group Collection Chrome Browser Extension2 min read·Mar 22, 2019----
John StackinScience Museum Group Digital LabCode and dataOpen source code and data sets produced through the Science Museum Group Digital Lab projects.1 min read·Jun 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…3 min read·Mar 27, 2018--1--1
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…4 min read·Mar 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…11 min read·Feb 20, 2018--3--3
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…11 min read·Jan 23, 2018--2--2