Re: [backstage] Geotagging BBC news stories

[Peter Williams]

Hi a couple of thoughts The use of Geotagging could be more useful if the tags were split according to the location of the author, location of the central story elements and the location where the story was published. For example, a story about Mugabe (location tag Zimbabwae), is filed from South Africa (location Tag Joberg), and "published" in the UK (location tag London/UK) In this way it would be possible to group stories by perspective, i,e the Australian press version of the London bombings, or the UK perspective on Mugabe as well as grouping by location of the stories, and their authors. This may link in well with any catagorization approaches to news feeds. A look up server that contained well known locations expressed in Lat/Long would make the application of the tag a simple process. If extended to the annotators, then one could the see the location based perspective of the commentator. Regards Peter (located in Australia- somewhere in the south pacific) Matthew Hurst wrote: More thoughts: the annotation spec should include information about when the rss feed was crawled and also when the annotation stream was created. I have some data now (both your annotation and some rss files with matching guids) saved to disc, I'll post the results sometime this weekend. MattH On 7/22/05, Matthew Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is great. I will get something together asap. Thanks! Matt On 7/22/05, Davy Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/22/05, Matthew Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm still for something like the original file format I suggested earlier. Simplicity is very attractive in this type of endevour. :-) http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/moodnewsanno.xml Its one big xml of all the feeds as I don't store the feed URL in the db (yet!). Should be enough for a demo... Email me if you need anything changed etc. Interesting stuff!! Mood News development trundles on with a mix of back end and client stuff being added. It has been slowed by me hunting for the perfect Python IDE. A new version next week perhaps? Thanks, Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. -- Peter Williams CEO Eurofin Technologies www.eurofin.net T +612 9968 1240 F +612 9968 1552