linking open data
If
it isn’t already, put the
Linking
Open Data project on your radar. It’s a grassroots effort to make
large data sets available on the web. These aren’t just tarballs sitting
in an FTP directory either–they’re URL addressable information resources
available in machine readable format. A few weeks ago Joshua Tauberer
announced the availability of the US Census as close to 1 billion
triples. If you like data and the web the
discussion
list is a wonderful place to watch these data sets getting released
and linked together.