Tools We Need
From Open Knowledge Foundation
Tools We Need
Dumping ground for ideas for applications, services, and infrastructure needed for open knowledge development.
Distributed Storage/Filesystems
See projects/Distributed_Storage
Timelines
One would like a tool that would display timelines given input with time tags. Two related concerns here:
- Specifying the input format (i.e. the time tags)
- Writing code that will then display the input
- suggested output formats:
- html + js
- png
- suggested output formats:
Existing Software
- Easy Timeline: http://infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/EasyTimeline/Introduction.htm
- Perl based
- uses ploticus and outputs to png
- Nothing in python
- JS: http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/
- JavaScript Timeline Widget, from OpenLink Ajax Toolkit
Rendering of geo locations using **open data**
Would like a simple software package to allow one to render location on a map with link to text. Essential that underlying map data be open. Would also like this to be deployable locally in addition to on a server. Preference would be for python or javascript type implementation.
See also: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2006-August/000127.html and the resulting thread.
Also, as of May 2008, if you go to OpenStreetMap (http://openstreetmap.org/) and click on the new "Export" tab, you can generate a smidge of HTML (or static images or vectors or what have you) for importing an OSM map into an iFrame on any web page.
Existing Software
Text annotation
What text annotation tools exist and what API do they require from the text? To take a concrete example: how would one annotate Shakespeare texts in a non-invasive manner and what open source tools already exist? A demo implementation would be particularly useful.
Existing Software
- ODS-Wiki and ODS-Discussion, components of OpenLink Data Spaces
- ODS-Wiki is a Wiki Platform supporting the Atom Publishing Protocol, Twiki, MediaWiki (Wikimedia), and Creole markup dialects
- ODS-Discussion is a Conversation & Discussion Management tool that also provides Conversation/Comment/Discussion management services to all of the ODS applications.
