- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:14:51 -0500
- To: public-xg-geo@w3.org
Shall we do introductions or something? I'm interested in this XG from a few different angles. I'm interested in connecting microformats with the semantic web. Quite a bit of lat/long data is going out there in hCards in structured blogs and such. I contribute to development of test materials for hcalendar and hcard... http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar-tests I hope we'll develop test materials in this group too. I gave a talk about connecting microformats to the semantic web at XML 2005 in November in Atlanta: Semantic Web Data Integration with hCalendar and GRDDL http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/mash/slides That talk uses calendars as the domain of application, but I think the technique applies to geo info just as well. A W3C working group was just started to work on a key technology for connecting microformats to the Semantic Web using those profile URIs, GRDDL. I'm working with Harry Halpin and Brian McBride to get that going. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/ See also http://microformats.org/wiki/profile-uris http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-profile http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard As an individual researcher, I do a certain amount of hacking in the area of travel tools, using Semantic Web technologies. And I think getting data from Wikipedia is a particularly interesting approach. I just set up a proxy that grabs (and caches) airport lat/long info and serves it up in RDF using the RDF geo vocabulary. I wrote an item on it just now... Choosing flight itineraries using tabulator and data from Wikipedia http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/151 I think geographic information is one of the key seed applications of the Semantic Web. (see http://esw.w3.org/topic/SeedApplications ). More about my background, other stuff I do at W3C and nearby, and contact info is on my homepage. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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