Re: Weather related information published as Linked Data

On 8/29/11 1:17 AM, Jeremy Tarling wrote:
> hi Kingsley
>
>> Is the actual Weather data going to be structured? For instance, you
>> could mark this up using Microdata or RDFa using HTML data islands.
>
> the data is structured in that it's basically templated groups of 
> forecast values (max/min temperature, visibility, 
> wind-speed/direction, etc) for a given location at a given time slot, 
> so I guess it wouldn't be too huge a leap to introduce rdfa or 
> microdata - again something I can recommend to the product team.

Great!

Kingsley
>
> JT
>
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>>> On 27/08/2011 03:02, richard.hancock@3kbo.com 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
>>>>
>>>>
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