PossibleTools

tool to utilize for to get to the end goal.

Jan 8 2008 by Audrey Eschright

I added a page to list tools we might want to work with. I think thisWIKI PARSE WARNING: unterminated '_'! project is really going to be a matter of assembling existing pieces (microformats and parsers and aggregators) to get the functionality we need.WIKI PARSE WARNING: unterminated '_'!

There might not be existing software or services that do what we want, but many of the pieces are already out there.

• The hCalendar microformat (http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar) provides a way for people to embed event data directly into a blog post or other web content, making it possible to automatically extract and collate. Upcoming already supports this.

• Dapper (http://www.dapper.net/) provides a way for non-programmers to extract information from websites and turn it into a variety of formats, including RSS and iCal.

• Planet (http://planetplanet.org) is a Python-based blog aggregator, already in use at Planet PDX (http://pdx.epiglyph.com). Easy to set up.

• an iCal parser for python: http://codespeak.net/icalendar/ (not that we're set on python, but it was mentioned above.

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