Forwarded on behalf of David Medyckyj-Scott, EDINA:
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Paul,

Your email was forwarded to me....

Re a geographic resolver "where I can choose a UK town on a map and it
gives me latitude and longitude back."

I think we can help you. Can I suggest you talk to my colleague James Reid
here at EDINA. He is project manager for the geoXwalk project
(http://hds.essex.ac.uk/geo-X-walk/) which is building a UK gazetteer which
can be used as a place resolver. This is a JISC funded shared service
project and it is looking for JISC services that might use the gazetteer
server in the way you describe.

You can contact him at [log in to unmask] or on 0131 651 1383 (although he
off sick at the moment). Failing that contact me.

Regards

David

PS. If anyone else can see a use for our gazetteer server, please contact
either James or myself.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: The CETIS Metadata Special Interest Group
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Paul Hollands
>Sent: 05 March 2004 10:23
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Funding opportunities over RSS
>
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>Apologies for cross posting.
>
>The LTSN / HE Academy is investigating aggregation and sharing
>information about events and funding opportunities over RSS. (By RSS in
>this context I mean RSS 1.0) I've been tasked with looking at suitable
>schemas.
>
>Andy Powell suggested the event RSS module as a good starting point:
>
>http://igargoyle.com/rss/1.0/modules/event/
>
>Part of the problem with vanilla RSS is that dc:date refers to the date
>of publication of an article etc, whereas with fundops you really want
>to know the closing data for applications. However, fundops do fit quite
>neatly into the RSS event model but it doesn't really do a full job.
>I've come up with the following very quick and dirty list of elements
>for a fundops module to augment the event module.
>None of the elements would be mandatory:
>
>- award type: research grant, bursary, studentship, prize
>
>Additions and amendments to this list most welcome..
>
>- award currency code
>
>Relevant RFC or ISO standard here please
>
>- award total budget
>
>How much is available overall, i.e. ACME corp. is making a million
>dollars available to develop bomb proof suits for coyotes = 1000000
>
>- award minimum value
>
>minimum value for individual grants
>
>- award maximum value
>
>ACME is making grants of up to $30,000 available = 30000
>
>- number of awards available
>
>- typical value of individual award
>
>- award subjects
>
>Goes into DC subject
>
>- award purpose
>
>Research and development  of coyote bomb proofing technology
>
>- award target group
>
>Who qualifies for these grants
>
>- award conditions
>
>What they have to do to get one
>
>- how to apply
>
>Finally, the awarding body. The event module has organizer and this
>should be used, BUT I don't think it is descriptive enough and maybe we
>need to add extra details like postal and email addresses. We could use
>the RDF vCard binding for these if required:
>
>http://www.dstc.edu.au/Research/Projects/rdf/draft-iannella-vcard-rdf-00.tx
t
>
>So my questions:
>
>- has anyone done this already and I've failed to find it on Google?
>
>- I think it'd be nice to roll the geo:point stuff into there as well,
>because I think this looks potentially very useful but the RDF in the
>examples on the event module page looks really broken to me. Am I right?
>
>- Does anyone know of a nice resolver where I can choose a UK town on a
>map and it gives me latitude and longitude back.
>
>(For those of you who aren't familiar with this, I believe the benefit
>would be that you could filter your RSS feeds to only include events
>within 50 or a hundred miles of where you live.)
>
>- Does anyone have any amendments or an entirely different and much
>better set of attributes / elements which they are using in their
>fundops databases instead of mine above?
>
>- Would anyone like to comment on my proposed list?

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