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"This productivity map for Google Earth is an example of such an application. It renders the university buildings in 3D - the building height indicates the number of publications written by researchers working in the respective building."

"A utility built on top of Transparency Data, Poligraft takes in a block of text, parses it for entities like politicians and corporations, and returns a result set representing the political influence contained in that text."

"Poligraft takes in a block of text, parses it for entities like politicians and corporations, and returns a result set representing the political influence contained in that text."

"Clearly data release can reduce fraud and curb unnecessary spending. The MPs' expenses scandal has stimulated more interest in this area but there are already websites dedicated to examining how public money is spent. Releasing full financial breakdown of spend can save millions, as a recent case in Canada proved. A $3.2 billion tax evasion fraud was exposed when financial data was made publicly available."

"But the Library of Congress (LC) has recently made authoritative subject cataloging data freely available on a new website. There, you can query it through standard interfaces, or simply download it all for analysis. I recently downloaded their full data set (38 MB of zipped RDF), processed it, and used it to build new subject maps for The Online Books Page. The resulting maps are substantially richer than what I had before. My collection is fairly small by the standards of mass digitization- just shy of 40,000 items- but still, the new data, after processing, yielded over 20,000 new subject relationships, and over 600 new notes and explanations, for the subjects represented in the collection."

"FROM antiquity to modern times, the nation has always been a product of information management. The ability to impose taxes, promulgate laws, count citizens and raise an army lies at the heart of statehood. Yet something new is afoot. These days democratic openness means more than that citizens can vote at regular intervals in free and fair elections. They also expect to have access to government data."

"Rewired State runs hackdays to let developers show government what is possible and government to show developers what is needed."

"Using the success of the iPhone project and the increasing number of good open data examples (e.g. http://data.gov.uk) we were able to kick-off our own open data project to create opendata.warwickshire.gov.uk. The business case and main benefits driving the project are: * Transparency for the public * Enhancing public communications * Improving service delivery and enabling citizens to self-serve * Contributing towards new ways of running public services * Improving external contribution to WCC * Enabling mash-ups of disparate sources of information to create new ways of looking at information * Enabling 3rd sector organisations or individuals to develop applications aggregating data across organisational boundaries * Reducing workload in areas like Freedom of Information (FOI), the Observatory and Public Relations * Reinforcing our efforts to resolve data and information issues"

"The following is a short compilation of open data success stories. It's hard to see the indirect benefits of releasing data. Since publishing open data is building an infrastructure, there are no obvious direct benefits and you can't predict the concrete impact it will have."

Aims: 1) further contribution to Open Bibliography; 2) linked data creation and publication

a new project - open source drug discovery for malaria. Initially the participants are my group at the University of Sydney and the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), but naturally as an open project we need to expand beyond this.

"a project by the Open Library Society, supported by the Open Bibliographic Data Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation. We improve the access to and the use of freely available scholarly metadata. Most of the records discussed here are already used in the Society's AuthorClaim service. We are making the records available here for others to use them. The idea is to build over time a large freely available dataset for academic performance evaluation and data mining. "