Hi,
I've been experimenting with Google Maps and the Oxford Guide's RDF:
Pubs: http://www.gmaptrack.com/map/locations/22/41
Colleges: http://www.gmaptrack.com/map/locations/22/40
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.
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.
Cheers
Inigo
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,
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.
Generated automatically with a bit of Python and rdflib. I need to hook it up to the Recent Changes feed though so it will update.
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).
Will do.
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:
Ta - looking through the archives now.
Cheers
Inigo
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