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Maailmanpankki avasi datat, edes API-avainta ei tarvita. Heillä on myös kisa...

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"Besides the fact that we include data from multiple branches of government, there are a few great reasons why the National Data Catalog is a great resource for government data. Most importantly, the system has its own built in documentation system powered by our community. This will help make government data more useful by making it so we don't all have to learn the nuance of a particular dataset individually. Now those resources can be shared."

"The National Data Catalog (NDC) is an open source catalog for government data sets and APIs. Our goal is to have it encompass all data released by or about governments in the United States. This includes federal, state, and local jurisdictions. The NDC will harness the community of users interested in open government data."

REST explained

"The report presented various roles for e-government in addressing the ongoing world financial and economic crisis. The public trust that is gained through transparency can be further enhanced through the free sharing of government data based on open standards. The ability of e-government to handle speed and complexity can also underpin regulatory reform. While technology is no substitute for good policy, it may give citizens the power to question the actions of regulators and bring systemic issues to the fore."

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Facebookin APIt sosiaalisien graafien keräämiseen. Kuka on kenenkin kaveri, mistä kukin tykkää?

Unlike the United States (data.gov) and Britain (data.gov.uk), Canada has no open data strategy. This must change. Canadians paid for the information gathered about our country, ourselves and our government. Free access to it could help stimulate our economy and enhance our democracy. In pursuit of this goal, this website is a citizen-led effort to promote open data and help share data that has already been liberated.

"This site aims to make some of that information more easily accessible, and to encourage transparency in government. This site is a volunteer, spare-time effort of mine. I built it because I think Parliament's goings-on are important-alternately fascinating, boring, and depressing, but important-and because I believe that public information should be meaningfully public, which today means shareable and computer-readable."

""Of course we should know how our representatives are representing us, of course we should be able to see what's being done with our tax dollars," Mulley writes on the site. "But, as information and data become increasingly synonymous, making information available isn't enough. To be useful, it has to be usable. It has to be freely available, in a flexible digital format. It has to be open.""

"John Mark Ockerbloom. "Open records, open possibilities" ALA Midwinter Meeting. Denver, CO. Jan. 2009. Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john_mark_ockerbloom/10 "

Palvelu, johon twiitataan eduskunnan äänestystulokset. Rajapintana käytetään tätä: http://www.biomi.org/blogi/2010/03/eduskunta-api/

Hackfest 2010

"Julkisen tiedon saatavuus -työryhmä valmistelee julkisen informaation saatavuuden edistämistä."

"Julkisesti tuotetut ja rahoitetut tietoaineistot muodostavat merkittävän kansallisen resurssin, joka kuitenkin tällä hetkellä on vajavaisesti käytettävissä. Laaja ja helppo pääsy tietoaineistoihin ja niitä hyödyntäviin sähköisiin palveluihin kasvattaa tutkimus- ja innovaatiotoiminnan tehokkuutta, mahdollistaa uusia löytöjä sekä sallii tietoaineistojen käytön ennen arvaamattomin tavoin ja yhä uusissa yhteyksissä, raportissa todetaan. "

"OM:lla hanke sähköisen demokratian edistämisestä (SADe-ohjelma, http://bit.ly/cRUPhX ), tähän liittyy myös datan avaamista, kansalaisten osallistumisen tukemista (voimaannuttaminen?) ja osallistumisympäristön rakentaminen. Suurempia suunnitelmia avoimuudelle siis on, mutta niiden tähtäin on vuosien päässä."

Avoin REST/XML-rajapinta Eduskunnan äänestystietoihin. Tämä rajapinta on toteutettu Screen Scraping -tekniikalla, eli palvelu lukee suoraan Eduskunnan webbisivuja, muodostain niistä oman tietokantansa ja tarjoten sitä helpolla APIlla eteenpäin.

Googlen avoin Chart API on saanut kaverikseen Visualization API:n, jolla voi tehdä interaktiivisia graafeja.