- From: Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:35:08 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Many of you will have seen work by Jim Ley and Dan Connolly and others on representing map locations in RDF and displaying them in SVG. e.g. foaf map http://jibbering.com/foaf/foaf-people-map.svg travel tools http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/pim/travel.html As part of the SWAD-Europe project [1] I have written a how-to document extending this a bit further to show how you might represent the locations of researchers and groups, their RSS channels, interests, and projects. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200303/geo/intro.html This document has been written in an attempt to persuade people and groups to make data about themselves available in RDF, so that we can use visualization tools to see what sort of work is going on where, including outputs of projects, rss channels of events or news. So - will you give it a go? I've done some sample files for ILRT (my organisation), and for some researchers in HP Labs and W3C (some of the partners in the SWAD-Europe project). http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200303/geo/allSWGroups.rdf When you have made an RDF document you could link it from the ESW wiki http://esw.w3.org/topic/AnRdfHarvesterStartingPoint or send it or a link to it to this list, the aim being that the information can then be harvested and aggregated, queried and visualized. The document is written in the spirit of discusson rather than as claiming to be necessarily the right or only way to represent these kinds of information. I would greatly appreciate any feedback on the topic - thanks to everyone who has helped me with it so far, especially Dan Brickley and Jim Ley. cheers Libby [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/ -- Dr Libby Miller http://ilrt.org/people/libby/
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