Month: October 2006

  • Newspapers and Syndication – Part Ib: ACAP – the “details”

    As expected the presentation of the ACAP details at the Frankfurt book fair on Oct. 6th was unnoticed by the media. Since i was eager to learn more about the details a emailed Gavin O’Reilly. Unexpectedly he answered quite fast, telling me that the details are to be found on the newly launched ACAP Website […]

  • DailyDeli for 2006-10-06

    Mainly focused on treemaps: newsmap Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionall (tags: visualization flash treemap) EmoMap EmoMap is a Python script that mines the Google world […]

  • DailyDeli for 2006-10-05

    Thsi day was mostly about gazetteers and other GIS related stuff: Gazetteer Protocol The ADL Gazetteer Protocol is a lightweight, stateless, XML- and HTTP-based protocol for accessing gazetteers: dictionaries of geographic placenames. (tags: protocol gis gazetteer) Alexandria Digital Library Project Welcome The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) is a distributed digital library with collections of georeferenced […]