Always nice to get an update on the elmcity project from Jon Udell. It is the ‘calendar’ of calendars and a great project showing how one can leverage open data, but at the same time confront some technological challenges too.
As I review and improve the elmcity hubs in selected cities, I am again reminded of William Gibson’s wonderful aphorism: “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” Yesterday we saw that the future of community calendars hasn’t yet arrived at the University of Michigan. But today I was delighted to see that it has arrived, in a big way, for the Ann Arbor public schools. Almost all of them, it turns out, are making good use of Google Calendar to publish machine-readable calendar information. This morning I rounded up thirty of those calendars and added them to Ann Arbor’s elmcity hub, bringing the total number of feeds from 194 to 224.
Here’s the breakdown of the 309 events from the grade schools:
Abbot Elementary | 8 |
Allen Elementary | 13 |
Angell Elementary | 7 |
Bryant Elementary | 29 |
Dicken Elementary | 118 |
Eberwhite Elementary | 19 |
Haisley Elementary | 25 |
Mitchell Elementary | 23 |
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