[Buildingdata] Re: Estates and Buildings data

[Jo Walsh]

Plus setting an example. Ewan has floor plan level detail with links to occupants for Informatics Forum. Looking for ideas interesting mobile e.g. applications to build on such data. 

Doesnt Oxford have a room level URI scheme and how is that decorated?

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Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

Well, my general policy has been that if the data owners say "no" then I respect it even if I disagree, there's more than enough data which I can open, and I want to win hearts and minds.

Jo Walsh wrote: 

Started work running in a Sun lab in the Institute of Contemporary Arts late 1998, they had been recently hit by a big organised gang. Lost lots of software with no original media and keys too. If this scale can happen anyway then what difference will open floor plans make? Computing looks different now with fewer large valuable seeming boxes to lift. Wonder what happened to all that stolen hardware?



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Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote: 

We had all our RAM stolen from a lab in around 1998.

Robin Rice wrote: 

Hi,

On 21/07/2011 21:17, Jo Walsh wrote: 

A heist of what, for much of the property - books? 


Well, I don't have strong feelings about this, but it may have been before your time Jo when Edinburgh was one of a few large research institutions which had their machine rooms broken into and their large expensive servers (don't know if it was the whole machine or the chips) stolen - late nineties I think. 

Funnily enough I was talking to someone today who gave an example of data suddenly becoming a high priority for making available - it was architectural data of buildings in Christchurch, because they needed to know what was sound and what needed to be entirely knocked over after the earthquake.

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