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A Day in the Life

TODO:

1. Add datasets:

• Load state premiers data set into mongo db
• Get music charts from Billboard or some other source
• Add additional events from dbpedia

1. Link to Trove newspaper stories and/or larger version of images
2. Add caching for dbpedia results to improve performance?
3. Add other locations (not just capital cities)?

API

Dataset	URL	URL Parameters	Result
National Archives – PhotoSearch	http://202.2.94.231:8080/ADITL/Photosearch	date (in the format YYYY-MM-DD) keyword(optional)	application/json (list of all matching photos)
BOM – Temperature Data	http://202.2.94.231:8080/ADITL/Temperature	date (in the format YYYY-MM-DD) state (one of: NSW, VIC, QLD, SW, WA, TAS, NT, ACT) minormax (one of: min or max indicating if you want the maximum or minimum temperature for this day.)	text/plain Decimal
Rainfall	http://202.2.94.231:8080/ADITL/Rainfall	date (in the format YYYY-MM-DD) state(one of: NSW, VIC, QLD, SW, WA, TAS, NT, ACT)	text/plain Decimal
ABS – Population for States and Territories	http://202.2.94.231:8080/ADITL/Population	date (in the format YYYY-MM-DD) state (one of: NSW, VIC, QLD, SW, WA, TAS, NT, ACT, or AUS for all of Australia)	text/plain Integer
ABS – Consumer Price Index	http://202.2.94.231:8080/ADITL/CPI	date (in the format YYYY-MM-DD) state (one of: NSW, VIC, QLD, SW, WA, TAS, NT, ACT, or AUS for all of Australia)	text/plain Decimal (as a percentage of the current CPI i.e. 0.1 = 10% of current CPI)
ABS – Prime Ministers	http://202.2.94.231:8080/ADITL/PrimeMinister	date (in the format YYYY-MM-DD)	application/json
dbpedia – Local and Time Specific Events	http://202.2.94.231:8080/ADITL/Events	date (in the format YYYY-MM-DD) city	application/json

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A Day in the Life is released under an MIT license:

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