a few technical links for calendering project

[Anselm Hook]

A few links that may be helpful:

It may be useful to be able to geolocate content in rss by brute force - beyond even well formatted microformat content - see:

  http://ondemand.metacarta.com/
  http://ondemand.metacarta.com/client_samples/geosearch.js.html

May be useful to visualize calendars on a timeline, not just a calendar view:

  http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

Another tool to help with venue discovery is the new Zillow Neighborhood database.  It has been hard to know the geographic polygonal boundaries of colloquial neighbourhoods - and such data may help; although of course this implies eventually having your own database of geographic data - which starts to leave behind off the shelf turnkey solutions like google.

I came across this today by chance:

  http://spongecell.com/

Beyond this, clearly the calendar database will want to build up an understanding of 'places' or 'venues'...  One thought is that is it possible to perhaps define a UUID for places that extends beyond the application itself?  Of course DNS defines a global worldwide unique identifier scheme for subjects - and it is probably best to use that...  For example can Wikipedia descriptions or Placeopedia descriptions be used as the canonical identifier for a venue?  Canonical identifiers help because if they are discovered in a feed then that automatically provides the venue location...  It helps data escape the silo...  I don't know if evdb or other event sites try to define a UUID.

- a

[DanielEtra]

I've been following the simile's timeline tool for a while, and it
looks like someone built a site that allows you to convert an ical
file into a timeline display: http://www.siatec.net/timeline/

-Daniel