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Putting the Royal into the Royal Botanic Gardens
The whole of Kew was awash with excitement yesterday, as we were graced with the presence of some very special visitors: Her Majesty the Queen – or “Queenie” as us DMTers have come to affectionately...
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Kew a ‘Digital Britain’ partner
I once got a confused reaction from an American after telling him I worked at Kew Gardens, which to him is a suburb of Queens, NYC. I’ve occasionally had equally bemused reaction when telling people...
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Trip to the Herbarium
Sometimes, you just have to be there to see something. Well perhaps the role of tweets, Facebook and the rest is partly to replicate the serendipidity of coming across something really interesting....
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Kew goes to Measurement Camp
Alongside launching Kew’s wonderful new website in October, and following a handful of social media pilots, myself and my colleagues in Kew’s Digital Media Team decided to embrace some of the new...
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Top hints and tips for making great audio slide shows for the web
As the Digital Team at Kew endeavor to produce more video and slide shows for the web in house, I decided (as a member of the team) that it was time to get myself out and about a bit more, to learn...
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Opening the information floodgates – why open data is here to stay.
On Tuesday 16 November the Royal Society ran a fantastic free public lecture entitled Opening the information floodgates: the technologies and challenges of a web of linked data. Interested in the new...
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Blogging, why bother?
I wrote this post for UKOLN Culture & Heritage blog on 19 December 2010. Click on the link at the bottom to read the full post. ——————————————————————————————–———————- Following a couple of recent...
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New game for Kew
We’re extremely excited over at Kew’s Digital Towers. In addition to our usual day job of maintaining the website, developing new features and chit-chatting with followers and fans about Kew’s work on...
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What’s at the bottom of the biodiversity data mine?
As the quantity of data available online reaches ever greater volumes, particularly structured or ‘linked’ data, questions of what value can be derived from that data, and how much that might be, are...
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Tweet & Grow – game preview
Kew’s new mobile game development has been progressing over the last few weeks and in my last post I’d promised to share with you a few hints at what will be coming up. As you can guess by the title of...
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