That sounds fabulous Jim, and the challenge is picking up steam with already 11 submissions, see https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/graphgist/wiki
Hoho! /peter G: neubauer.peter S: peter.neubauer P: +46 704 106975 L: http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer T: @peterneubauer Neo4j 2.0.0 - (graphs)-[:FOR]->(everyone)<http://blog.neo4j.org/2013/12/neo4j-20-ga-graphs-for-everyone.html> Do something useful - Teach your kids 1 hour code! <http://code.org/learn> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Jim Salmons <[email protected]> wrote: > Last week the British Library announced that it has uploaded over one > million public domain images taken from books of the 17-19th centuries in > its collections. (http://goo.gl/0IVnsA). The image files are on Flickr > and a GitHub repository has all the upload manifests with available > metadata, etc. (https://github.com/BL-Labs/imagedirectory). > > While this collection is undoubtedly making many scrapbookers, crafters, > and graphic artists giddy, already the NoSQL folks are all over it to > showcase how their technology can do something wonderful with this dataset. > Obviously, this has got to become one of the staples of the Neo4j sample > datasets, too... So please, if anyone has the time and interest, let's show > folks -- for example -- how labels in 2.0 can be leveraged for quick BL > Image Collection searching and access, etc. > > For my part, I've written a piece about how the British Library Image > Collection could be used in a FactMiners social-game -- the 'Seeing Eye > Child' Robot Adoption Agency -- a game to let kids help robots (AKA any > learning-machine program with vision capabilities) to learn to "see" and > understand the world around them. You can read this post here: > http://goo.gl/xYlymt. > > I've already heard back from Mahendra Mahey, British Library Labs project > manager (http://labs.bl.uk/Resources), saying how interesting my 'kids > and robot vision' idea is and how they'd like to talk about collaborating > in the New Year. So, if anyone is interested... > > I plan on doing a Dec/Jan GraphGist Challenge submission using a > FactMiners social-game example to explore the value of having a rich > embedded metamodel subgraph working together with dynamically configurable > thin clients as an architecture for Neo4j interactive applications. If > someone wants to do a submission about this British Library image > collection dataset, I would like to participate so your submission could be > complementary to my "self-descriptive" database GGist, and to set up a > further exploration specific to the 'Seeing Eye Child' Robot Adoption > Agency game. :-) > > --Jim-- > www.SoftalkApple.com > The FactMiners social-game ecosystem > is an initiative of The Softalk Apple Project. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Neo4j" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Neo4j" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
