[Open-transport] OKFest 2014

[Thomas]

Actually there is a standard vocubulary for describing accessibility
facilities, it's called IFOPT. IFOPT is the
CEN standardization initiative to develop the British NaPTAN concepts into
a extension on Transmodel / NeTEX. Does NaPTAN not already contain
accessibility data?



On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:07 PM, ding c. (cd8e10) <cd8e10 at ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

> Hi Pieter,
>
> Just a idea about accessible transport, there is no standard vocabulary to
> describe the accessibility facilities for the public transport. There is
> some open data available, such as Transport for London, a xml based dataset
> provide accessibility metadata for London tube stations and Nation Rail
> also provides html based website to provide accessible travelling
> information. However, no standard vocabularies to describe these
> information. Is it possible to link the accessibility metadata to the open
> transport vocabularies to provide much information for people's needs. This
> would also be a benefit for using open transport data.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Chaohai Ding
>
> PhD Student and  Research Fellow
> Web and Internet Science Group (WAIS)
> School of Electronics and Computer Science
> University of Southampton
> mailto: cd8e10 at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>
> ________________________________________
> From: open-transport [open-transport-bounces at lists.okfn.org] on behalf of
> Pieter Colpaert [pieter.colpaert at okfn.org]
> Sent: 27 March 2014 15:44
> To: open-transport at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: Re: [Open-transport] OKFest 2014
>
> Hey Peter,
>
> How about getting people together to do an editathon for the open
> transport vocabulary on the one hand, and a referential database for
> stop_point identifiers on the other hand?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Pieter
>
>
>
> On 2014-03-26 23:29, Peter Hicks wrote:
> > On 14 Mar 2014, at 15:44, Stéphane Guidoin <stephane at opennorth.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> >> The proposal period has been extended to March 30th
> > Excellent - but still only a few days left.
> >
> > Does anyone else have any ideas?
> >
> >
> > Peter
> >
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