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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “opendata”

• Four short links: 18 November 2009

  
  O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — Authority: 700
  Memento: Time Travel for the Web -- clever versioning hack that uses HTTPs content negotiation to negotiate about the date! Ordnance Survey Maps to Go Online -- The prime minister said that by April he hoped a consultation would be completed on the free provision of Ordnance Survey maps down to a scale of ...
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• Sneak peek at data.gov.uk

  
  Quixotic Quisling — Authority: 120
  Are you a coder in the UK? Do you fancy tinkering around with government data for the potential good of the public? Here’s an early Christmas present. Visit data.gov.uk and it will bounce you on to a Google Group. Request to join the group and introduce yourself. You might get access to the developer preview of ...
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• California Data Camp: Exploring State Data and DataSF App Contest [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 123
  What happened at the first ever California Data Camp?A live blog of the event from Spot.Us. The event was attended by roughly 100 people at Citizen Space in downtown San Francisco.
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• Infinite Monkeywrench - GitHub [del.icio.us]

  
  Expanding horizons — Authority: 135
  The Infinite Monkeywrench is a collection of tools to download, clean, process, and package datasets from a variety of sources (HTML, RSS, XML, CSV, &c) into a variety of formats (XML, CSV, Excel, JSON, SQL, YAML, &c). Interacting with IMW is as simple as creating a YAML file which describes the workflow ...
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• Four short links: 11 November 2009 - Participation Tools, Open Data Requests, Go Programming Language, Why Open Source is Better

  
  O'Reilly News — Authority: 479
  Go -- new language from Bell Labs and Unix central figures Rob Pike and Ken Thompson, who now work at Google. Bits of C, bits of Google, it compiles to native binaries and runs nearly as fast as C. Built with concurrency and memory management as central figures. Not used in production at Google yet, but grew from ...
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• Searching Open Government Data in four dimensions

  
  osrin.net — Authority: 104
  The current trend of governments releasing massive and diverse datasets will demand something different from internet search tools in the future, something that we might consider a little extraordinary today. Today most of us search in a single dimension, we tap a term into our favourite web search tool and get back ...
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• Toronto’s OpenTO data initiative off to quick start [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 123
  Toronto, Canada unveiled an open data initiative Monday, making it possible for citizens to augment, use and distribute data to promote government accountability and innovation. Toronto.ca/open, or OpenTO, is the city’s official data set catalog and within the first two hours of the Toronto Innovation Showcase, both ...
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• Unlikely Group Working Happily Together To Solve Patent Problem

  
  O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — Authority: 700
  People following the issue of open sourcing the U.S. Patent Database might have beensurprised to read an announcement in the official business opportunities web site ofthe U.S. Government: Synopsis for Public Data Dissemination Sole Source Contract to Google, Inc. While the first reaction of many might be "OMG, WTF, ...
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• Les bons liens de la veille ( 3 novembre au 7 novembre )

  
  Blogging The News — Authority: 123
  Voici quelques articles dont la pertinence/l’intérêt m’ont marqué au cours des derniers jours. Faites-en bon usage ! :-) La première voiture sous Creative Commons, Open Source et crowd-sourced. Via @Calimaq – Chacun des éléments de cet engin au look de chasseur TIE est placé en Open Source de manière ...
  2 weeks ago

• Open Data comes to Toronto! YAY! » Archive » HomeZilla Corporate Blog [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 123
  Today, the Toronto Open Data Lab was held at Toronto’s City Hall. The lab talked about Toronto’s Open Data Catalogue which makes the HomeZilla team very excited.We have already integreated Toronto’s Open Data for Parks and Toronto’s Open Data for Child Care. Both of these data sets have increased the quality ...
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• NOW Magazine // Open at last [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 123
  David Miller was elected in 2003 on the promise to clean up City Hall, memorably waving a broom in the air and attaching the image to his campaign signs.This week, almost seven years into his tenure and a year before he steps down, the mayor pulled out a vacuum cleaner.OpenTO, the initiative to collect all the bits of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Map and Data Library, University of Toronto: Crucial Elements Missing in Torontos Open Data Initiative [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 123
  The City of Toronto has followed the lead of Vancouver, and some cities in the U.S. and released a portion of their data for free to the public. The announcement was made at Torontos Innovations Showcase by Mayor David Miller. While many would argue the offerings are slim; and it is true that for someone who uses GIS ...
  2 weeks ago

• City of Toronto web re:Brand blog: Too many cooks and not enough kitchens [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 123
  A fantastic exchange happened at yesterdays Toronto Innovation Showcase. This was during the Open Data Lab review. I want to post the moment in video and eagerly await the video archive form our webcaster. Meantime, let me describe what happened.The exchange was between panelists Greg Wilson and Jay Goldman. Im ...
  2 weeks ago

• Data brings accountability - The Globe and Mail [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 123
  Computer networks are becoming a wellspring of democratic accountability. Vancouverites can look up the exact longitude and latitude of every public drinking fountain in their city on an Excel spreadsheet, or check out the comprehensive data that is registered with the citys land titles office (with names removed). ...
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• A city resets, one hashtag at a time: #CPaS vs. #opendataTO | Mondoville [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 123
  
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• MSDN Blog Postings » Blog Archive » City of Toronto launches /open [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 123
  The City of Toronto has launched the toronto.ca/open site today. The site is modeled after the open data sets at the City of Vancouver, the District of Columbia and the US Federal government, data.gov. This was launched at the Toronto Innovation Showcase. The full data set is available at DataTO.org.One of the ...
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• Outputs from the #opendataTO ‘Open Data Lab’ session | Ryan Coleman [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 123
  Yesterday Toronto’s Mayor, David Miller, officially launched the city’s Open Data project (#opendatato) as part of the Toronto Innovation Showcase taking place November 2 & 3. Originally announced at the mesh conference earlier this year, it’s great to see this initiative come to fruition finally.As part of ...
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• 5 Blocks Out Blog » Blog Archive » Yumm, We Love Open Data [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 123
  One of the things the massive 5 Blocks Out product team (ahem… all two of us) does is slurp up lots of city-related data into 5BlocksOut.com. We’ve built a list of Toronto neighbourhoods, for instance — there are a few hundred — and we’re compiling lists of thousands of named places within the city. This all ...
  2 weeks ago

• Building a city that thinks like the web | DavidCrow.ca [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 123
  Today marks an interesting day in Toronto. Today Toronto joins Washington, D.C., Vancouver, San Francisco, New York City, Australia, and the US in opening city data to citizens, companies, and the world to improve the quality of life. It begins a great journey to creating a strong new economy in Toronto around an ...
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• Four short links: 3 November 2009

  
  O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — Authority: 700
  First Test for Election Cryptography (MIT Technology Review) -- The first government election to use a new cryptographic scheme that lets both voters and auditors check that votes were cast and recorded accurately will be held tomorrow in Takoma Park, MD. Founder of the company behind the technology is David Chaum, ...
  2 weeks ago

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