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Written by stevieflow the 29 Sep 09 at 09:32.

Some venues - such as museums and galleries - have general opening times and activities, alongside any targetting activities for young people.

The description field could be utilised for this - but there will then be an issue as to how such venues can be "flagged" for people to pick up through the output API.

Perhaps this can be handled through a "flag" that can be applied to any of these venues that will distinguish them for others. Indeed- we could have three statuses for a venue that could then be output through the same field:

1 - Active venue - there are upcoming activities associated with this venue
2 - Inactive venue - there are no upcoming activities associated with this venie
3 - Open venue - this venue is flagged as being of interest, irregardless of the above two states.

This isnt 100% ideal. The Open status could apply to both active and inactive venues, so it is not an exclusive choice.

Some venues - such as museums and galleries - have general opening times and activities, alongside any targetting activities for young people. The description field could be utilised for this - but there will then be an issue as to how such venues can be "flagged" for people to pick up through the output API. Perhaps this can be handled through a "flag" that can be applied to any of these venues that will distinguish them for others. Indeed- we could have three statuses for a venue that could then be output through the same field: 1 - Active venue - there are upcoming activities associated with this venue 2 - Inactive venue - there are no upcoming activities associated with this venie 3 - Open venue - this venue is flagged as being of interest, irregardless of the above two states. This isnt 100% ideal. The Open status could apply to both active and inactive venues, so it is not an exclusive choice.

Written by stevieflow the 29 Sep 09 at 09:38.

An additional element exists whereby an organisation can provide a positive activity, but these have to be "accessed" or "booked" beforehand. This is just how these organisations operate.

Hence, the activity will be available, but will not have a time and date - or even a time summary (eg every Wednesday).

The time aspects of these activities will therefore be subject to availability/contact.

I havent really a solution spec for this, but can see how some manipulation of the API *could* help.

An additional element exists whereby an organisation can provide a positive activity, but these have to be "accessed" or "booked" beforehand. This is just how these organisations operate. Hence, the activity will be available, but will not have a time and date - or even a time summary (eg every Wednesday). The time aspects of these activities will therefore be subject to availability/contact. I havent really a solution spec for this, but can see how some manipulation of the API *could* help.

Written by stevieflow the 29 Sep 09 at 13:43.

As with the Tag It app (sorry folks this isnt in public demo just yet!) an app could be developed whereby a data feed of venues is taken in for a particular area, and then the user chooses to "flag" a venue as a "place to go".

The reason why this would work as an external app could be that deciding on whether something is a place to go, as opposed to a venue, is more of a subjective decision, patrticularly based on the end use of the data. I could be building a football website and therefore want to highlight sports venues as places to go in my website - rather than museums. Hence, Id use this app to read in the venue data and then set a flag to use.

How this data is then stored is another question

As with the Tag It app (sorry folks this isnt in public demo just yet!) an app could be developed whereby a data feed of venues is taken in for a particular area, and then the user chooses to "flag" a venue as a "place to go". The reason why this would work as an external app could be that deciding on whether something is a place to go, as opposed to a venue, is more of a subjective decision, patrticularly based on the end use of the data. I could be building a football website and therefore want to highlight sports venues as places to go in my website - rather than museums. Hence, Id use this app to read in the venue data and then set a flag to use. How this data is then stored is another question

Written by dhodgson the 16 Jul 09 at 13:51.

Change the API to use providers more like categories and give the ability to tag activities with multiple providers.

Change the API to use providers more like categories and give the ability to tag activities with multiple providers.