Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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 ...

The Doppelganger service translates between IDs of entit... APIs. When you query Doppelganger with an entity ID, you... of that same entity in other APIs. In addition, a persis... serves as an anchor for your application that you can us... queries.

The First Case in History
The first historic mention of Copyright, which set the u ...
Columcille had taken to visiting monasteries, borrowing ...

The growth of both the types and the amount of data gene... users, and applications have resulted in a number of rec... innovations: NoSQL, rise of popularity of Hadoop, and do... higher-level map-reduce frameworks. However, the batch-p...
What if we

The HAT is a private and secure cloud-based information ... and data processing abilities. It’s your own microserv... can access your data and manage it from an easy-to-use d... hyperdata browser we call Rumpel™. With Rumpel, you ca...
If you are

The HAT is the first-ever personal data platform (HATPDP... individuals’ own data for their personal use. Individu... their own data from internet-connected objects or servic... acquired data is then transformed by the HATPDP to enabl...
The HAT is

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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The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collectio...
Its purposes are:
To encourage research on algorithms that scale to co ...
To provide a reference dataset for evaluating research
... To help new researchers get started in the MIR f

The most important issue that came to light was that dat... readily available in on-line API formats and are current... masses of spreadsheets that need to be downloaded and ho... worked into a usable and highly available format. If thi... process is

The Open Applications Group is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profi... development organization (SDO). Our community is focused... process-based business standards for eCommerce, Cloud Co... Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, and Enterpris...
Our Open Ap

The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative is an... effort aimed at developing and promoting an open standar... expressions. ODRL is intended to provide flexible and in... mechanisms to support transparent and innovative use of ... publishing,

The OpenURL Framework Standard defines an architecture for creating OpenURL Framework Applications. An OpenURL Framework Application is a networked service environment, in which packages of information are transported over a network. These ...

The OS OpenSpace API is free to access and lets develope... web applications and online projects with Ordnance Surve...
But OS OpenSpace API is not just for developers.
Although the API uses JavaScript to make web pages more ...
Get Ordnance Survey map

The Public Domain Review aspires to become a bounteous g... whopping plenitude that is the public domain. We aim to ... explore this rich terrain by surfacing unusual and obscu...
As well as providing a home for a diverse range of inter ...
We also hop

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 right to read is a battle being fought today. Althou... years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity... specific laws and practices described above have already... many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere.... 1998 Digita

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

The world of civic tech has changed radically in the las... of the old bastions of transparency and civic innovation... crumble, shrinking dramatically in both size and scope. ... the future of civic tech will appear radically different... from under

The YQL execute section actually dispatches the request ... return data.
var results = y.query("select * from csv where url=@url ...
This runs another YQL select statement when the table ge ...

There are two missions of this site. The first is to mak... public the highest quality and most reliable historical ... economic aggregates, with particular emphasis on nominal... measures, as well as real (constant-price) measures. The... here on the

There is a vast amount of data available today and data ... collected and stored at a rate never seen before. Much, ... this data however is locked into specific applications o...
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for que ...
OData is co

There is an ever-increasing amount of data available on ... waiting to be integrated by product developers. But actu... more than just one API into a product poses a problem to...
A location based product, for example, would aim to pull ...
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TheyWorkForYou lets you find out what your MP, MSP or ML... name, read debates, written answers, see what’s coming... and sign up for email alerts when there’s past or futu... someone or something you’re interested in.

This dataset contains information for virtually all UK r... for the lines (routes) that the stations lie on. Links a... the stations and routes, and between adjacent stations. ... included to Wikipedia, dbpedia.org, the National Rail En... and geoname

This document provides statistics about the structure an... LOD cloud. It also analyzes the extend to which LOD data... nine best practices that are either recommended W3C or h... the LOD community.

This paper provides insights into the concepts underlyin... framework for open reference linking in the web-based sc... information environment. The discussion starts by briefl... problems with reference linking that were initially desc... addressed a

Today, a story on Techmeme caught our eye. It was entitl... Wikipedia for data," and the article, written by X-Googl...
In Bret's story, he mentioned some of the common data so ...
In addition, as CNet and Ryan Stewart's blog spread the ...
So what did

Traditional health systems serve a key role in protectin...
Novel Internet-based collaborative systems can have an i ...
Mobile Internet usage is growing rapidly worldwide, maki ...
We present a brief summary of some promising mobile appl ...
These early

Twitter tells software developers not to try to mimic fu... 'timeline' apps - but missteps by official apps suggest ... alternatives still needed

Underneath the surface of the BBC World Cup web site the... going on in the technology and workflow being used to ma... our content. To some extent we have been doing this in s... figure out a lot of challenges, but as we approach the W... we'd like t