On Mon, October 2, 2006 8:17 pm, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > > Categories might include: Literature Authorship Date, General Historical > Event, Reigning Government, Famous Person Lifetime, War, etc. > > These submissions would populate a database which could be viewed by > panning and zooming on a timeline, and checking categories to hide or > show.
A lot of that data is already cached in wikipedia. I wonder if there would be a way to mine those 'submissions' and index them the way you're describing (by date and category). Some possibly helpful links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Database_download http://download.wikimedia.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Database_download/archive1 Peace, Gabriel -- G a b r i e l M B e d d i n g f i e l d _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
