[OGDev] Getting OpenGuide info in RDF

[Dean Allemang]

I am impressed by the RDF backend of OpenGuides, and the goal of making 
the information reusable on the Semantic Web.


I am giving a talk next month at AjaxWorld about Semantic Mashups using 
RDF (which, for full disclosure, will feature my company's product, 
TopBraid Composer).

Part of the story will be, "but where will you find all that data in RDF?"

OpenGuides is a very good answer to that question. 

I want to use some RDF data from OpenGuides in my demo (with 
attribution, of course).  But I am having trouble coaxing RDF data from 
the OpenGuide website in a useful way.

Here's what I would like to do.  I see that in the OpenGuide Boston, 
there is geocode information for all the MBTA train stations.  For 
instance, a page like 
http://boston.openguides.org/?id=Northeastern_Station;format=rdf gives 
me the geocode location for the Northeastern University stop.

I would like to find a page that has, say, all the Green Line stations, 
with their geocodes, all in one file (URL).  Similarly for Redline, 
etc.  I can make a pretty interesting mashup page from such 
information.  I can do the same with all the single-station pages, but 
that will seem awfully tedious when I show it as part of a demo.


Is there a way to get the RDF exported in this way?  Is this something 
that the OpenGuides folks would be interested in allowing me to do?


Thanks,

Dean Allemang
Chief Technology Consultant
TopQuadrant Inc.