Mike Ellis, formerly of http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ put together a cracking good run-through of what a cultural organization needs to get up and running with Mashups.
Much of what’s being produced in this arena is map based, which works great for me because I’m absolutely nuts about visualizing data on maps, but the major thing I took away from the session was that it’s really all about data sources and how you manage and channel data sources.
RSS feeds from anywhere, made a great example of what can be done with a mashup editor and may prove extremely useful for the future direction of the OSC website. The CMS that we are looking at deploying makes it very simple to produce a feed out of just about anything. This has major implications for how we integrate some of our social media experiments into our more traditional presence.
Great conference so far. Lots of wonderful, talented people.
PS I still need to find the über-guru guy at the back of the session who demoed some of the stuff he was working on for MIT.