Open Data

straight upload of the summary Excel file from http://www.plos.org/downloa... - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

bunch of nice looking XML files available by year and month - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

wonder which existing published statements from CC science commons and other groups might discuss some of the topics raised? - Mike Chelen

"CKAN is a registry of open data and content packages. CKAN makes it easy to find, share and reuse open content and data, especially in ways that are machine automatable. About » FAQ and Guide » API Introduction In addition to use of this website, CKAN data can be viewed and changed by using an Application Programming Interface (API). The API takes the form of a RESTful (Representational State Transfer) style API for accessing CKAN database objects and a Search API. This document specifies the API so that anyone can create software applications to use the CKAN service. The specification describes the RESTful API in terms of which resources are available, what their locations are, what methods each resource supports, and what the responses might be. It also species the usage and responses to the search API." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

software in use by (among others) data.gov.uk under development by Tim Berners-Lee http://news.bbc.co.uk/2... - Mike Chelen

api seems to support json and xml? - Mike Chelen

listing of US water utilities by state source data from American Water Works Association http://drinktap.org - google spreadsheet http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc... - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"The WATERS JavaScript Library provides an easy to use interface that hides the complexities of calling the WATERS HTTP services. The library supports both AJAST and AJAX style requests. The below diagram depicts how the library fits into a consumer application and the WATERS Service architecture." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"Collection of tools and resources for working with public water data." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"Here's a quick screen capture while setting up a Google Maps mashup of Vancouver's Open Data ( http://data.vancouver.ca/ ) on Drinking Fountains in Drupal. Here's the end result: http://water.tylorsherman.com/ Modules used: * views ( http://drupal.org/project... ) * node_import ( http://drupal.org/project... ) * cck ( http://drupal.org/project/cck ) * gmap ( http://drupal.org/project/gmap )" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"In response to an RTI petition, the India Meteorological Department, (IMD) has made rainfall data for the past few years available at a monthly level, for each district of the country on their website: IMD India Water Portal has imported all the data from 2004-2008 into a spreadsheet that you can download and save for future use. Please note that IMD has updated their website with partial 2009 data too; this data will be incorporated into the IWP spreadsheet on this page at a later date." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

#yql opentables guide: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql... something similar to sunlight lab's open data table for legislators http://github.com/spullar... - Mike Chelen

there is a version available on data gov wiki http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/wiki... - Mike Chelen

"These USGS web services for water-quality data are interoperable with corresponding web services provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The services are interoperable in the sense that the the outputs are consistent in format and nomenclature, and compliant with the WQX-Outbound 2.0 schema. (EPA output is compliant with the WQX 2.0 schema. WQX 2.0 data elements are a subset of WQX-Outbound.)" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

provides REST, SOAP, and WSDL - Mike Chelen

"WATERS exposes several mapping services that provide access to numerous datasets. This web page describes the content and purpose of each mapping service. Each service is provided in ESRI proprietary formats Exit EPA Disclaimer and Open Geospatial Consortium Exit EPA Disclaimer open standards formats to enable the display and query of spatial WATERS data." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

the standard implemented by Pubmed Central http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/about... - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

tutorial seems targeted to someone interested in configuring an OAI server. would like to see something similar for those focused on usage and client development - Mike Chelen

"Typologies of intellectual property is an interactive visualization of patent data issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Every week an xml file with about 3000 new patents is published by the USPTO and made available through data.gov." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

Interesting idea, though I found the visualization difficult to navigate. - Hilary

The icons end up ovelapping a lot, could benefit from simpler figures. The source code for the visualization is available so anyone can try tweaking it. - Mike Chelen

"This module loads OpenSecrets Open Data provided by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) for non-commercial use. The following Campaign Finance Data tables are currently supported: * Candidates * FEC Committees (PACs, Candidate and Party Committees) * PACs to Candidates * PACs to PACs" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"For those of you working with OpenSecrets Open Data, MAPLight.org has released a module that loads the campaign finance data into Drupal. Details at: http://bit.ly/JPAvR" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"We've made it easy for you to make enquiries to publishers (and others) about the openness of the data they hold — and to record publicly the results of those efforts." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

see when there are changes by checking the file size (perl) http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy... - Mike Chelen

idea would be to display breakdown such as http://sunlightlabs.com/blog... over the course of time - Mike Chelen