Six years ago, our team created a beautifully designed site for The Foundation for Science Technology and Culture called Muslim Heritage, which went on to become a very popular resource about the contribution of the Islamic world to the culture and heritage of European civilisation.
We continue to support this charity and we are working with them again to promote an ambitious exhibition and schools activity project called 1001 Inventions. We are using a wiki to manage the project, which involves a fascinating array of international experts, and the main Web site is based around a blog to open up claims and finds to public discussion.
**The exhibition launches at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry this month **
We also built a neat toy to help convey the continuing influence of Arabic words and concepts in the English language. It takes Arabic-derived words, displays a tag cloud based on usage data from the BNC Corpus, and then links through to Arabic and English texts, a definition and lightly moderated Flickr images, Google links, Wikipedia entries and books from Amazon. We used the APIs of each to grab live examples of how people are using the word in different contexts, and then built a simple device to remove questionable content, as our main audience is young people and children.
Here is 'Blighty':-)
Reaching hard to reach young people with an exhibition of historical scientific and cultural innovation
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