[open-literature] Open Correspondence

Wed Oct 27 19:13:02 UTC 2010

On 27 October 2010 20:01, print.crimes <print.crimes at yatterings.com> wrote:
>  Hi Rufus,
>
> Just following our earlier brief conversation. I've put it in my diary to be
> on the OKFN IRC around 6 on Sunday so that we can move the site off EU0.
> I've been doing some tinkering and have got a Xapian instance on it and
> updated the CLI to index the letters. I've also done some work to update the
> parsing as well for the textReferred element but it is something that I'd
> like to work on to improve.
>
> You asked about JSON. You should be able to get a JSON response from the
> letters / index by sending an accept JSON header. If it does fit needs,
> please let me know and I'll come back to it. I think it does need some work
> but am only just coming around to trying to build some other pieces of code
> to mine the data. Somewhere I've got some code to start clustering the
> letters by words and I'm working on some Java code to play with SPARQL and
> provide lists and so on. I'll post code once it comes together.

Support for plain json with a format=json&callback=... would be very
useful for doing graphing stuff interactively.

For more on jsonp see: <http://data.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/api>

> See you on Sunday and here's hoping it'll be a treat rather than a trick. :)

Yes :)

Rufus