District of Columbia - Data Catalog. Articles—Open Data. Listen to an audio recording of this talk.
We have come here to listen to a veritable pantheon of Web accessibility experts give us advice that is practical and relevant to working on the Web today. I’d like to offer something of an alternative. By that I don’t mean that I’m going to give you advice that is irrelevant and impractical. I mean that I’d like to take a step backwards and try to look at the bigger picture. There won’t be any code. Where to Find Open Data on the Web - ReadWriteWeb. Today, a story on Techmeme caught our eye.
It was entitled "We Need a Wikipedia for data," and the article, written by X-Googler Bret Taylor, discussed the difficulty of finding open data sets on the internet, something which could spur innovation, allowing programmers to build new applications the likes of which have never been seen before. What was interesting about this story, in addition to, obviously, the concept of a Data Wiki itself, was the amazing and insightful commentary around this concept, not just on the blog, but all over the net, something which led to the discovery of some pretty good data sources that are already available.
In Bret's story, he mentioned some of the common data sources currently available, like the US Census Bureau's map data and the Reuters corpus, but his commenters came up with a few more.