Michael Smethurst wrote:
Hi Aaron / everyone
Apologies for the dumb question but i guess from your "enter zip code" homepage
we're talking US politics here?!?
Since this is connected to politics of the UK kind the rest of this will
probably be spam:
As many of you know we're going to be making BBC programmes available as linked
open (meta) data - sorry we don't have rights for programmes themselves,
except....
...we do have full rights for at least some BBC Parliament content. For some
reason this disappears from iPlayer and hence /programmes after 7 days. We're
currently working our way through the BBC hierarchy to work out why. It's a
tiring journey but with luck on our side we'll be able to make some programmes
permanently available online at persistent urls with rdf available.
So i guess my question is: is there anyone out there that would be interested
in a semantic erm mashup from a UK politics perspective? Maybe someone from
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ with an rdf bent? or maybe even someone from
parliament?
sorry to take up your time... worth a punt perhaps
Micheal,
Sure!!
Ironically, I've just been testing our Sponger Cartridge for
<http://www.theyworkforyou.com/> :-)
I''ll post a browser demo link and a URI once I am happy with the Cartridge.
Kingsley
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Aaron Swartz
Sent: Tue 4/15/2008 5:42 PM
To: Linking Open Data
Subject: [Linking-open-data] watchdog.net and LOD best practices
Hi there,
I'm launching a new site, watchdog.net, to bring together various
sorts of political data. As part of this, we want to make it very easy
for developers and LOD people to take advantage of the data.
What we're currently doing is described at:
http://watchdog.net/about/api
Basically, we support URL and content negotiation to return N3,
RDF/XML, or JSON on each page.
Open questions: Are there better ways to expose this? What do we do
for our query APIs?
For example, we have an ability to take a zip code and return back a
list of matching districts. What's the best way to expose this as RDF.
Should we just say:
[ :zipcode "s98dfu89sdif" ] :districts ( ) .
?
Anyway, take a look and let me know what you think.
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