How We Opened Up Our Private Museum Collection API

Explore the process of opening a private museum collection API in this conference talk from linux.conf.au 2022. Learn how the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) developed XOS, a museum experience operating system, to power their Story of the Moving Image (SOMI) exhibition. Discover the challenges and solutions in designing a public API that prioritizes security, speed, and usability while keeping private museum APIs protected. Gain insights into the architecture, software choices, content licensing discussions, and the journey from prototype to production. See examples of experiments built using the API and explore potential future applications. The talk covers topics such as regular updates, accessibility, rich data links, experimentation, and the technologies used in the development process. Understand the challenges faced, including expectations, automation, digitization, and data sovereignty issues. Get a glimpse into the future of museum technology and the potential for connecting with other organizations through open APIs.

Introduction
Welcome
Why did we build it
Regular updates
Accessibility
Rich data links
Experimentation
Who is it for
technologists
internal use
examples
dependency map
how we build it
what we used
was alpine linux
nightly updates
manual releases
unicorn server
speed test
request speed
time to build
dependencies and security
documentation
prototypes
Machine Dreaming
Accessible accessibility labels
Wikimedia fellowships
Machine dreaming prototype
Matrix poster
Film stills
The Training Set
Australia
Challenges
Expectations
Automation
Digitization
Update time
Get diffs
Thank you
Any questions
Is there a skew
Looking through the data
New APIs
Building relationships with users
Uptime monitors
Connecting with other organisations
Data sovereignty issues
Ask Seb
Have you had issues with lawyers
We havent yet touched wood
Thank you Simon