On 22/05/07, Dominic Hargreaves dom@earth.li wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:35:20PM -0400, Earle Martin wrote:
Aaand, today I had some quality time talking shop with Mark Jaroski of the new project Wikevent.org, a wiki-based event calendar. We're going to work together to integrate our projects [...]
This sounds interesting. How do you envisage OpenGuides doing this? Are code changes required or is this just a case of people using it for a different sort of data?
Something really trivial - we add* a new sort of feed/data output to list geographical things; they read it and link to us where we have relevant pages. Here's an example of what I'm talking about, dating from the earlier stuff with Evnt: http://london.openguides.org/data/geodata.txt
That's a CSV file**, but I'm thinking of other output formats too, including our sort of RDF, JSON, etc. Talking of JSON, I've been pointed to "Geo-JSON", which may be of interest to Kake, who I seem to recall was looking for something like that? A quick Google brings up this as the first interesting hit. http://zcologia.com/news/361/more-geo-json/
Plus, we can include their output; this is exactly why I wrote the RSS embedding macro. (Which still needs a bit of work to make the end result look better.) Mark's still working on the per-venue feeds, so no demo yet. But the idea is that, as Dave suggests, "the OG pages will link to the events happening at the venue as well".
It's early days yet, but the end result should be a beneficial one for both projects, and hopefully getting users to contribute data in both directions. Cool, n'est-ce pas?
* Yes, I'm volunteering for this, don't worry... ** Although it's actually tab-separated. Cue "hates-software" posts.