[OGDev] What are people working on?

[Tom Heath]

Hi Kake,

In a nutshell I'd like to use the OG sites as a source of geodata for
items reviewed at Revyu.com.

You may have picked up from previous posts on this list that I'm
working on Revyu.com [1] at the moment. People can use the site to
review any things they want, some of which will be SpatialThings that
could sensibly use lat/lon data (pubs, restaurants, museums). However,
to keep the Revyu.com interface generic and avoid it becoming some big
silo (which would not be very semantic web-by), I'm keen to piggy back
on other data sources for this info, rather than add a "add lat/lon to
this thing" form into Revyu.

Open Guides could be an ideal source (issues of global coverage
aside), as long as I can come up with a reasonable heuristic for
matching reviewed things in Revyu with their entry in a Guide.
Assuming I can, then I can retrieve the lat/lon data from the OG entry
RDF, show a nice Gmap on the relevant Revyu page, and also add
owl:sameAs statements to the Revyu RDF output linking Revyu entries
with OG entries. This would add nicely to the Linking Open Data
project at [2].

Will let you know when/how it goes. Comments welcomed :)

Tom.

[1] http://revyu.com/
[2] http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData

On 11/03/07, Kake L Pugh <kake at earth.li> wrote:
> On Fri 09 Mar 2007, Tom Heath <tom.heath at gmail.com> wrote:
> > FWIW I'm planning to make use of the OG geodata in RDF sometime pretty
> > soon, but will only need as much precision as the Guides need, i.e.
> > just enough to show a flag in *roughly* the right location on a Gmap.
> > Not sure if this has any bearing on the situation.
>
> Ooh, cool.  What are you going to be doing with it?
>
> Kake
>
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