Hi Aaron / everyone Apologies for the dumb question but i guess from your "enter zip code" homepage we're talking US politics here?!?
Since this is connected to politics of the UK kind the rest of this will probably be spam: As many of you know we're going to be making BBC programmes available as linked open (meta) data - sorry we don't have rights for programmes themselves, except.... ...we do have full rights for at least some BBC Parliament content. For some reason this disappears from iPlayer and hence /programmes after 7 days. We're currently working our way through the BBC hierarchy to work out why. It's a tiring journey but with luck on our side we'll be able to make some programmes permanently available online at persistent urls with rdf available. So i guess my question is: is there anyone out there that would be interested in a semantic erm mashup from a UK politics perspective? Maybe someone from http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ with an rdf bent? or maybe even someone from parliament? sorry to take up your time... worth a punt perhaps -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Aaron Swartz Sent: Tue 4/15/2008 5:42 PM To: Linking Open Data Subject: [Linking-open-data] watchdog.net and LOD best practices Hi there, I'm launching a new site, watchdog.net, to bring together various sorts of political data. As part of this, we want to make it very easy for developers and LOD people to take advantage of the data. What we're currently doing is described at: http://watchdog.net/about/api Basically, we support URL and content negotiation to return N3, RDF/XML, or JSON on each page. Open questions: Are there better ways to expose this? What do we do for our query APIs? For example, we have an ability to take a zip code and return back a list of matching districts. What's the best way to expose this as RDF. Should we just say: [ :zipcode "s98dfu89sdif" ] :districts ( ) . ? Anyway, take a look and let me know what you think. _______________________________________________ Linking-open-data mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/linking-open-data http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.
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