Re: [tlug] OT: Beer Festival

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

BABA Yoshihiko wrote:
> On Sep 9, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Edward Middleton wrote:
> > Anyone interested in starting a TOKYO pub guide, something like this[1].
> >
> > Edward
> >
> > 1. http://www.johngoodwin.me.uk/pubs/pubindex.html
>
> Yeah, I am very much interested.  Do you mean just British/Irish style 
> pubs? Do some nice izakaya/tachinomi count? Within TLUG website?

My idea was to do it in a distributed fashion using semantic web technology.

I don't think we need to make it just British/Irish style pubs, and we 
probably also want to add information about what is on tap.  It looks 
like the pub ontology[1] they[2] were using doesn't support this 
information.

BASIC IDEA

Everyone involved publishes a FOAF file linking members together and 
including links to their pub/izakaya/tachinomi information in rdf.  A 
crawler would be setup on the TLUG server to update members FOAF data 
and update their pub/izakaya/tachinomi information.  The merged RDF 
information could be queried  from the TLUG site, or alternatively 
people could download it for local querying.  If people want to join 
they just need a FOAF reference from someone already involved.

Edward

1. http://www.johngoodwin.me.uk/pubs/
2. http://www.johngoodwin.me.uk/pubs/pubindex.html