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Typhoeus is a fearsome Ruby library that enables parallel HTTP requests while cleanly encapsulating handling logic.

A Canadian historian uses semantic web technology to do interesting research and to lay the groundwork for others to do so.

A blog to augment a suite of Yahoo Pipes that work with Museum website and public collection information.

Wiki for sharing, discussing, arguing (nicely) over and hopefully coming to some common agreements on APIs and data schemas for museum collections. It's being led by the Science Museum, London, but we're interested in working with other museums in the UK or worldwide.

hoard.it is a prototype system for scraping granular, semantic data from existing (template-driven) HTML pages. To date, the prototype has been used to aggregate museum object data and 'museum listings' data, but it can be used for any other type of data.