LinkedCulture slideshows are now embeddable on your website! 😎

LinkedCulture slideshows are now embeddable on your website! 😎 One script tag, one custom element. A live, cross-institutional collection view that runs on any website that accepts HTML, no API key, no account, no build step.

<script src="https://linkedculture.org/linkedculture-slideshow.js"></script>
<linkedculture-slideshow
  topic="european-renaissance-armor-components"
  interval="2500"
  max="20">
</linkedculture-slideshow>

How it works

The <script> tag loads one shared file that defines a <linkedculture-slideshow> custom element: plain browser platform APIs, no framework required on the host page. Drop the element anywhere in your HTML and it does the rest. It fetches images and metadata, renders a rotating card stack in its own shadow DOM (so it can't clash with your site's styles), and cross-links back to each museum's own record page.

Two ways to point it at data:

• topic="..." is a stable, readable slug for a published LinkedCulture topic. Good for editorial use: museum pages, course sites, curator essays, blog posts. The example above pulls Cleveland Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago records tagged under european-renaissance-armor-components.
• search-code="..." is the shareable code behind any LinkedCulture search result. Run a search, share it, and the same widget becomes a live, masked view of that query, useful for a one-off feature or a teaching page built around a specific question rather than a standing topic.

interval sets the milliseconds between auto-advancing slides (autoplay="false" disables auto-advance entirely, handy for a static screenshot); max caps how many objects load. Clicking a slide opens the full image; the widget fires a linkedculture-view event a host page can hook into for a custom viewer, which is exactly what powers the built-in image viewer here.

Live embed

That's the actual script and element from the snippet above, running for real in this note, not a screenshot.

Museum #educators, cultural #journalists, digital #humanities #researchers: if you cover a topic that touches open #museum collections, you can embed a live discovery surface directly in your content today. It also runs fine entirely outside linkedculture.org: see the external, plain-HTML embed demo for proof it travels to any page that accepts a <script> tag.

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