[10865] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Geographic Metadata About WWW Servers/Pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Daviel)
Wed Jul 9 22:13:34 1997
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:08:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andrew Daviel <andrew@andrew.triumf.ca>
Reply-To: Andrew Daviel <advax@triumf.ca>
To: Steven Clift <clift@freenet.msp.mn.us>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199707092330.XAA21819@freenet.msp.mn.us>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Steven Clift wrote:
> I am interested in making the Internet more community oriented (in a
> geographic sense - the virtual communities have relatively fine) so
> that for example a map could be generated by an Internet search/index
> site or so someone could indicate that they want to search in X
> place/area based on Y keywords. I assume that geographical naming
> standards are easier to agree upon than keywords and the like
> (longitude, latitude, Global Positioning Satellites, place names - say
> how about a virtual version of GPS that would allow a site the
> _option_ of choosing a GPS point that represents their site - then
> you could leverage that body of work).
Currently under way in Dublin Core metadata effort
Can't remember all the URLs
offhand. http://vancouver-webpages.com/VWbot/DC.lite and
surf. Currently discussing thesauri of placenames.
Andrew Daviel
