- From: David Bearman <dbear@archimuse.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:55:40 -0500
- To: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>, Richard Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com>
- Cc: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>, "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
Hi all, I haven't entered this discussion to date, though I've been following with interest. I am making a case for geo-location and geo-aware applications services in a sector with an illuminating use case that I hope you can address, over time. Applications I'm interested in involve making cultural heritage information (about artifacts and specimens) currently held in museums available to people where they are and by geographical queries. The information on many billions of collected objects is currently held in museums where they have ended up (through quirks of history). Recorded geographical knowledge in these databases is infrequently lat/lon. It is sometimes geo-political (includes historical entities not generally being considered by your 'civic address' discussion and religious entities like parishes), sometimes geo-morphological (great rift valley, Mt. St. Helene's), sometimes geo-cultural (Roman, Frankish), etc. I'm seeking an API that can roughly locate millions of things so that mobile social annotations functions can more precisely locate them. thanks, David -- David Bearman President, Archives & Museum Informatics LLC 158 Lee Ave. Toronto, ON M4E 2P3 Canada ph. +1-416-691-2516 fax +1-416-352-6025 http://www.archimuse.com
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