Populating the MUD with News

1. identify your 'portion' of the news, according to this table:

   Name

   Era

   MY-NEWS-OBJECT name

2. @create $g.gen_news_object named MY-NEWS-OBJECT

3. Find your section of history in http://lions.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~blackwood/history/history.htm

4. For each news story in your section of history, add a new list to the list-of-lists in the .stories property of your news object as follows:

   Each row in the .stories table of the news objects will have the following fields:

   primary secondary tertiary people locations

   • Year: integer (range 1880 to 1886)
   • Month: integer (range 1 to 12, 0 if no month)
   • Day: integer (range 1 to 31, 0 if no day)
   • Headline: string (required to be non-empty)
   • Story: string (possibly empty)
   • Topic: list of strings (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Person, Place)

   Which means your 'news object' will have a .stories property that looks like this:

   {{year, month, day, headline, story, primary, secondary, tertiary, people, locations}, {.....}, {.....}, ...}

   Example:

   {{1882, 4, 3, "Outlaw Jesse James killed", "Outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back and killed in St. Joseph, Mo., by Robert Ford, a member of his own gang for a $5,000 reward. Jesse and Frank James, the bank robbing James brothers, were born as Woodson and Alexander.", "Law", "Crime", "Outlaw", "Jesse James", "Missouri"}, {.....}, {.....}, ...}

   The schema is defined in http://cs.ndsu.edu/~slator/html/blackwood/blackwood-news-ontology-1.html

   Every news story must have keywords from this schema, PLUS keywords that are specific to the news story.

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   modified: 2011-01-15; 23Feb14; contact: slator@cs.ndsu.edu