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Courted, used and discarded in less than a year. That’... Transport for London’s attitude towards independent ap... the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme.

But as access to the published results of scholarly rese... issues around making the data that is summarized in thos... available are coming to the fore. The White House memora... a certainty. Sharing the results of scientific research ... unveiling a

Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repositor... sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-ba... AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the... like all AWS services, users pay only for the compute an... for their o

Want to find the latitude/longitude of any UK postcode? ... Wales, and Northern Ireland? Read these first:
The problem with code point open from ordnance survey
Code point open northern ireland addendum
Then follow these instructions:

A recent post by GigaOm’s Imran Ali on the field of Da...
Following through on that thought, I decided to try to c ...
Here’s what I came up with:
* Data Markets: Services that make it easy to find d ...
... or Data” might in fact describe thes

Can you think of an open data curation project where the...
In the mid 1990s, as open source code began to boom, the ...
For years I’ve asked, where are the equivalent project ...
Nada.
... and how it was finally opened up in an incomplete form.

Dan McQuillan:
“Open data doesn’t empower communities. I’m not sa ...

So, why go free? No, we haven’t decided to become a no... we’re not just super-nice. What we are is ambitious. A... with and talked with many people in the Pachube communit... they’re ambitious too.
The “Internet of Things” is a big idea (tho

Was 2010 the year of the API? Some have claimed this eac... years, with the next always eclipsing the previous. Ther... APIs added to our API directory in 2010, two times the n... 2009. Greater trends on the web are being played out, as... the most po

Redesigning Docs for RESTful Web APIs
In the past year, a new trend has emerged for web API do ...
Companies such as Posterous, Wordnik and Google have led ...
At Mashery, we were inspired by these new designs to bui ...
... already deployed I/O Docs for

For the first time, data scientists can monetize their k... creativity just as app developers do. When this happens,... the dynamics of the industry – essentially, data scien... “self-publish” their domain expertise as cloud servi... be made acc

CloudMade enables you to build dramatically different Lo... Applications and Services.
CloudMade provides application developers with a range o ...

DSPL is the Dataset Publishing Language, a representatio...
Features
Use existing data: Just add an XML metadata file to ...
Powerful visualizations: Unleash the full capabiliti ...
... pen: Freely use the DSPL format in your own applications

When the coalition announced that councils would have to... spending over £500 by January next year, there’s been... excitement in the open data and transparency community a...
Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government Er ...
Now, howeve

The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou...
The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou ...
* * - publish the available data on the Web in whate ...
* ** - make it available as structured data, for exa ...
... stage

The Public Sector Transparency Board, which was establis... Minister, met yesterday for the first time.
The Board will drive forward the Government’s transpar ...

The World Bank Open Data
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 ...

DataDryad.org is a curated general-purpose repository th... underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely ... citable. Dryad has integrated data submission for a grow... journals; submission of data from other publications is ...

The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open source refe... anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism.
It was born at a 48 hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in Lon ...

Launched in May 2010, DataMarket.com is a data portal th... to statistics and structured data from various public an... organizations.
This enables users to find, compare, visualize and downl ...
Access to public sector and other open and free data is

DataSift is the real time social media filtering engine ... which builds upon the success of TweetMeme, the consumer... MediaSift Ltd.
DataSift provides very granular and modular ‘sifting†...
The world is moving to streams, and consumers will consu

Dewey.info is an experimental space for linked DDC data....
The ten main classes
000 Computer science, information & general works 100 Ph ...
Highlights
... ta is reusable under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license

Facebook Export uses the Facebook Open Graph protocol to... Facebook data to an xml file. Facebook Export does not s... about you. You can then use this xml file to import your... services and websites that support the Facebook Export (...

figshare helps academic institutions store,
share and manage all of their research outputs

Full Fact is an independent fact-checking organisation. ... to see the facts and context behind the claims made by t... British political debate and press those who make mislea...
We have already successfully pressed for inaccurate clai ...
Since its c

Mode is trying to do for data scientists and analysts wh... developers by giving them a place where they can find, c... on data.

The microformats community has revisited it’s standard... “microformats version 2”. At first, I thought why! I...
The authoring patterns have been simplified even mor ...
microformats 2 addresses one of the biggest problems ...
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