Re: [tlug] OT: Beer Festival

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

BABA Yoshihiko wrote:
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Edward Middleton wrote:
>
> > Edward Middleton wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I just realized I didn't include the why (i.e. what you could do with 
> > this information)?  You could use this information to
> >
> > * find all pubs[1] in general area.
> > * find the nijikai location.
> > * find the closest pub selling X beer.
> > * find all pubs rated by X
> > * find pubs open at a specific time.
> > * find the next closest pubs to the station.
> > * plot all pubs in a given location[2].
> >
> > and all based on information by people you know.
> >
> > Edward
> >
> > 1. replace pub with pub/izakaya/tachinomi
> > 2. 
> > http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http:%2F%2Fwww.johngoodwin.me.uk%2Fpubs%2Fpubsmaps.kml&ie=UTF8&ll=50.926627,-1.409683&spn=0.127677,0.395508&z=12 
>
>
> OK, so each of us just prepare a RDF file based on this southampton 
> file, publishes on the net, and someone writes a script to gather the 
> info. Sounds good.

Yes that would be a good start.  RDFa[1] or even GRDDL[2] able pages 
could also work but might take a bit more work to get the crawler 
setup.  It might also be a good idea to extend the southampton pub 
vocabulary so we can say what is on tap.  The beer ontology[2] could 
come in handy for that.

Edward

1. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/
2. http://www.w3.org/TR/grddl/
3. http://www.dayf.de/2004/owl/beer.owl