On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 09:46:34PM +0100, Inigo Surguy wrote:
I've been experimenting with Google Maps and the Oxford Guide's RDF:
This looks very interesting. Is this generated automatically - ie will it poll for new data in the pub category? I think for it to be really useful it'd need to do that.
Does anyone object if I add links to these maps to the wiki? They're quite basic at the moment, but could be useful with a bit more work.
Sure, go ahead (if you want to add to the home page you can munge the URL manually, btw - the edit page link is disabled on the home page simply because it's a prime candidate for defacing).
Is the full RDF for the site available anywhere in a zip or similar? So far, I've just been downloading each page as I need it, but that's a bit hard on the webserver, and also means I might miss things.
http://www.ox.compsoc.net/oxfordguide/?action=index;format=rdf
will get you the whole lot. As long as you poll sensibly and cache data, it shouldn't be that much of a problem. Maintaining a static archive would probably be more effort than it's worth.
You might want to join the openguides-dev list as there are a couple of people on there interested on doing cool things with RDF spidering:
http://openguides.org/mm/listinfo/openguides-dev (subscribe) http://openguides.org/mail/openguides-dev/ (archives)
Cheers,