Re: Weather related information published as Linked Data

Hi Richard,

US Gov
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[1] http://www.nws.noaa.gov/forecasts/xml/
[2] http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/cntyzone.htm
[3] http://www.epa.gov/sunwise/uvindex.html
[4] http://www.srrb.noaa.gov/highlights/sunrise/sunrise.html

AU Gov
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[1] http://www.bom.gov.au/
[2] http://www.bom.gov.au/uv/index.shtml
[3] http://www.bom.gov.au/global/
[4] http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/cdo/about/sitedata.shtml

IMHO, the biggest hurdle is that business rules are written for idealized standards. That's not always obvious. It does make bankers happy and I suppose that's a good thing.  Properties can get Out of Range very quickly (OOR = NaN, sort of).  The "relative" properties of Chemistry and Physics are notorious.  For example, the Ideal Gas Law predicts well only in a narrow range of temperatures before it needs corrections.  Another example, Snowmen all have two Properties: wet and puddly - oh I meant all Snowmen at room temperature, sorry.

Good Luck !

--Gannon

--- On Fri, 8/26/11, richard.hancock@3kbo.com <richard.hancock@3kbo.com> wrote:

> From: richard.hancock@3kbo.com <richard.hancock@3kbo.com>
> Subject: Weather related information published as Linked Data
> To: public-lod@w3.org
> Date: Friday, August 26, 2011, 9:02 PM
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Received on Saturday, 27 August 2011 12:13:49 UTC