On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jeremy Tarling <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Jeremy,
> As part of this we are using Geonames IDs in our URLs to represent forecast > locations along the lines of bbc.co.uk/weather/:geoID, so for example the > forecast for Stafford would be something like > http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2637142 > > Not exactly publishing linked data, but hopefully opening up the potential > to link up BBC/MO weather forecast data with other data sources more easily > That's pretty cool - it'll definitely make it easy to link up the BBC pages with other data - when will the new URLs be deployed ? And maybe it could be linked data with some minimal RDFa? (eg: <link rev="meteo:forecastPage" href="http://sws.geonames.org/2637142/";> ) Out of interest, how are the forecasts at http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/ produced ? Is it all from the metoffice? Cheers, Keith > Jeremy Tarling > > On 27/08/2011 03:02, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> next week I am meeting with the New Zealand Met Service ( >> http://www.metservice.com/ ). Before the meeting I am planning to do some >> background research on examples of weather related information being >> published as Linked Data. >> >> If you know of some examples I'd really like to hear about them, >> especially around the business value of publishing weather related >> information as Linked Data. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Richard Hancock >> >> >> >> >> > > >
