Why the #opendata "movement" is a joke:

RT @timberners_lee: #opendata #linkeddata // Nature Publishing releases Linked Data platform #webinf

What are the N most similar words to X, according to WordNet?

This data seeks to answer that question, where similarity is based on
measures from WordNet::Similarity. http://wn-similarity.sourceforge.net

RT @acka47: Obviously, @oclc hasn't understood #opendata yet: Can someone please scrape & publish the FAST data? /c ...

Kasabi brings together data providers (organisations, businesses, individuals) with developers and domain experts. This community lets data providers explore business models and add value to their datasets, while allowing developers access to build their applications and services around them.

Scientific publishing as it stands is an inefficient way to do science on a global scale. A lot of time and money is being wasted by groups around the world duplicating research that has already been carried out. FigShare allows you to share all of your data, negative results and unpublished figures. In doing this, other researchers will not duplicate the work, but instead may publish with your previously wasted figures, or offer collaboration opportunities and feedback on preprint figures.

Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor, and the code and data are shared with the world.

Good slides to point OSM skeptics to.

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.

These databases integrate information from various projects at the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum Buddhist College. By providing information on Chinese calendar dates, as well as an onomasticon of person and place names from Buddhist sources they help with disambiguation and geo-spatial referencing of names and dates. The data is openly available through various web-services.

Cohen sees the potential for partnerships between the lone professional historian and crowds of helpers, particularly as the quantity of historical material increases.

Multilingual RDF descriptions of human languages.

Carl Malamud: Suggesting that students interested in furthering the public domain... start harvesting documents from the public taxpayer-financed web sites at UMich and re-injecting them into the public domain?

People are weaving a web of dull factual data... what’s not clear is how such a vision allows for the diversity of opinion, modeling, belief systems and cultural diversity that is one of the distinct characters of humanity.

An easy to use data access system was developed that meets UNSD’s vision of providing an integrated information resource with current, relevant and reliable statistics free of charge to the global community.

The wiki markup for each article is transformed into machine-readable XML, and common relational features such as templates, infoboxes, categories, article sections, and redirects are extracted in tabular form.

Downloadable GIS data from the Geological Survey of Ireland.

The DBpedia community uses a flexible and extensible framework to extract different kinds of structured information from Wikipedia.

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If we’re aggregating (and building UI for) ’social web’ claims about the world rather than simple buddylists, I suspect aggregators will get burned unless they take care to keep careful track of who said what.

This page collects RDF datasets that are part of the Semantic Web.