- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:45:52 -0400
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jim O'Donnell<jim at eatyourgreens.org.uk> wrote: > I think Google News Timeline is worth?mentioning?here as an application > which already does this > http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/ > It shows > events?going?back?to?the?late?Middle?Ages.?I'm?not?sure?how?they've?harvested?the?dates?from?wikipedia.?Perhaps?by?using?microformatted?dates? Probably by looking at the category markup Wikipedia uses, which is specific not only to MediaWiki but the particular decisions of the English Wikipedia editing community. <time> certainly wouldn't help here -- this application doesn't need a way to say "this text string denotes a particular time", but rather "this event happened at this particular time". You need to use Microdata or RDF or such for that kind of relationship semantics.
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