Re: [backstage] 3D?

2005-07-23 Thread Richard Lockwood
www.htmlguru.com is your friend here. Specifically, http://www.htmlguru.com/content/webpages/guru/guru.html Very elderly site, but still very nice looking. (Although given that it's (c) 1998, don't expect it to work in Firefox / Mozilla based browsers.) However, if you want to work with 3d on

Re: [backstage] Geotagging BBC news stories

2005-07-23 Thread Matthew Hurst
Here is the blog entry: http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2005/07/feed_annotation.html Feed Annotation Streams With the help of Davy Mitchell, and the input of others on the backstage discussion list (Tony Hirst, Duncan Barclay, and others) we have put together the first proof of

Re: [backstage] Geotagging BBC news stories

2005-07-23 Thread Davy Mitchell
On 7/23/05, Matthew Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the blog entry: http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2005/07/feed_annotation.html Feed Annotation Streams Looks good - but I might have to hack the Python RSS library I am using to get the GUID tag out of it :-) I'll have a go

Re: [backstage] Geotagging BBC news stories

2005-07-23 Thread Matthew Hurst
Davy - yes, I think there is a real opportunity here for something. I'm imagining a ping server for FAS data. There is open source java code for a ping server, I bet we could trivially mod it to work for FAS data. If we could put this up and provide a front end (very very simple thing, just a list

Re: [backstage] Geotagging BBC news stories

2005-07-23 Thread 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

Re: [backstage] Geotagging BBC news stories

2005-07-23 Thread Matthew Hurst
I've been thinking about servers wrt annotations. Why wouldn't you just have a server that takes a query with a guid and produces an annotation? I thin kthere is a really good reason for not going for this at the first cut: simplicity. If everyone out htere who is providing meta data for rss feeds