Re: Weather related information published as Linked Data

On 8/28/11 2:15 AM, Jeremy Tarling wrote:
> hi Richard
>
> the BBC is currently working on a rebuild of its weather website to 
> incorporate more Met Office locations and longer term forecasts.
>
> As part of this we are using Geonames IDs in our URLs to represent 
> forecast locations along the lines of bbc.co.uk/weather/:geoID, so for 
> example the forecast for Stafford would be something like
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2637142
>
> Not exactly publishing linked data, but hopefully opening up the 
> potential to link up BBC/MO weather forecast data with other data 
> sources more easily

Is the actual Weather data going to be structured? For instance, you 
could mark this up using Microdata or RDFa using HTML data islands.

Kingsley
>
> Jeremy Tarling
>
> 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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