[Buildingdata] Re: Meta Sites

[Andy Turner]

I spoke with Arif Shaon who is lead developer of GeoTOD-II at the UK
eScience All Hands Meeting about a month ago. I have just emailed him
and Chris by way of introduction. My thinking is that GeoTOD-II is
useful and I liked the look of the code. However, I only had a brief
look at the code, have yet to set it to task and the documentation is
virtually none existent (as Chris has discovered). I explained to Arif
that I am keen to help get GeoTOD-II more usable and used and
suggested that I could do this by providing an example use and
associated documentation. What I needed from him was to know he would
be available to answer my questions...

Hopefully I can post a more positive update here soon.

Cheers,

Andy

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Christopher Gutteridge
<cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Seems it was a very short (4 month) project; I've still suggested it would
> help if the front page explained a bit more what it did!
>
> Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>
> I've had a look around geotod and it's a bit poor, sadly. They don't really
> explain what it's intended to be used for.
>
> I finally found some documentation by browsing the SVN on sourceforge... it
> was a microsoft word file. I'm just going to give up now. There might be
> something useful in that project but it sadly seems to me to be a half-arsed
> bit of code which was done to fulfill/get funding.
>
> Seeing as there's no a single link to it that I can find using Google, maybe
> it was just never finished and formally released?
>
> Andy Turner wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> All seems very pragmatic.
>
> As for the within part, it could be treated as a spatial relation.
>
> With regard spatial relations, have you considered the following:
> http://geotod.sourceforge.net/
> ?
>
> Keep up the good work :)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Andy
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Christopher Gutteridge
> <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Hi guys. I've got a minor but interesting issue with our sites:
>
> Our Buildings & Estates planon system regards these as 3 sites:
>
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/site/64.html
>
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/site/63.html
>
> But almost everyone just refers to them as "Wessex Lane". I've another
> site which is the "Glen Eyre Complex" which is also 3 or 4 sites
> according to the Planon DB.
>
> I'm thinking of making a meta-site to contain these 3 sites, eg.
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/site/wessexlane.html and say that these 3
> sites are within it. I think that's helpful for doing things like route
> planning. We want to show bike routes between major sites but the route
> should start/end at wessex lane, not any specific part of it.
>
> I also have
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/12.html
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/14.html
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/10.html
>
> which are parts of the library and some systems still refer to them,
> although they are now usually treated as a single building:
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/36.html
>
> Again; should I just say the first 3 are within b36?
> (alternately I could use the dublin core 'part of' relation, but we've
> used sr:within elsewhere)
>
> Any ideas or advice?
>
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