Hi Gustavo, all
For LOD people : Gustavo is the man behind http://geohash.org, a very
cool service. I've been thinking about a layer which could be added to
geohash to generate URIs for events, encapsulating in a single standard
URI string the Where-When-What, and allowing automatic generation of a
standard RDF description for events.
Something like the following
http://geohash.org/u0tyz0ssw:%5B2008-10-26_2008-10-30%5D_International_Semantic_Web_Conference
The dates could be entered by user using some calendar widget,
integrated with the Geohash Mapplet, with an extra field to enter the
title.
The service would return the above URI.
To make such URIs usable by the Semantic Web, RDF descriptions could be
automatically generated from the above using e.g., the event ontology at
http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html
Something like (namespaces pending)
<event:Event
rdf:about="http://geohash.org/u0tyz0ssw:%5B2008-10-26_2008-10-30%5D_International_Semantic_Web_Conference";>
<event:place rdf:about="http://geohash.org/u0tyz0ssw";>
<geo:lat>49.0026</geo:lat>
<geo:long>8.4000</geo:long>
</event:place>
<time:beginDate>2008-10-26</time:beginDate>
<time:endDate>2008-10-30</time:endDate>
<rdfs:label>International Semantic Web Conference</rdfs:label>
</event:Event>
What do you think?
Bernard
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