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I am an amateur architectural historian and find this site fascinating. I have created project databases and bibliographies for various architects and was wondering if this application could be used to link project specific material. As an example, Neutra was widely published and the Kaufmann House has over 400 items in its bibliography. Could a simple click on the Kaufmann or any other Neutra house automatically link up to its individual bibliography. This would be of great interest for researchers, historians, real estate sales people, and home owners. I envision eventually combining this with Zillow and architectural databases, bibliographies, building and safety records, and county assessors databases into something that could give you the complete history on any building in the country that you could access on your I-phone or car GPS while you are driving down the street. How do we make this happen? Are Zillowand/or Google already working on this?
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jcrosse, thanks for you interest. I maintain this app, now. I also uploaded all the Neutra houses into freebase (including dates and location information). If I understand what you are saying: the Kaufmann house is referenced in many books, magazines, newspapers, etc. and we could store this reference information in freebase as well. Right? I think that would be great.
The simple approach would be to have a flat document that's "attached" to the "topic" (in this case the Kaufman House) which just contains a list of references. As you said, it would be great to have that document "pop-up" when the user clicks on something in Archiportal.
A more sophisticated approach would be to have each reference be a structured item within freebase:
- published work
- page #
- topic referenced
This would be more powerful in that one could perform a sophisticated database query like "show me all references to austrian architects from the New York Times" but it would be a lot more work, for sure.
What do you think? I'd be happy to help you with this.
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