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Guardian
We released the Politics API in March to prepare for the 2010 general election. We've been using it for some of our own efforts and found it made our work much faster and easier. We've opened it with a free-to-use license so you can build your own apps using our data.
Open Platform
Apps
As part of the Guardian's second Project Activate initiative we open up our doors and our minds to the crisis crowdsourcing platform Ushahidi for a week of creative and technological collaboration
Music and Literary Apps
The Guardian newspaper has augmented its Open Platform API with unique identifiers for bands and books.
As an industry we do it, to an extent, in print. We use a selection of standard paper sizes that allow us to use standard printing machines and standard point-of-sale displays. And we fill our papers and websites with standard advertising formats, to make it easier for advertisers to do business with us.
Value to the news industry?
Podcast
In this Nodalities Podcast, I talk with blogger and Guardian information architect Martin Belam. I’ve run into Martin at a few Linked Data events where the news and media industries have had a high profile (including the recent News Media Summit , and News Innovation conference last year).
Linked Data at the Guardian
We took the Last.fm path, and extended the Guardian's Content API to include non-Guardian identifiers.
UK newspaper The Guardian is expanding its Open Platform (our Guardian API profile ). Today they’ve launched a useful new government API that covers information about politicians and elections in the UK, with many details going back to 1992. It also contains limited older data, as far back as 1945.
Data is Journalism: Politics API from The Guardian
Simon Rogers édite le Data Blog du Guardian et a participé pour son journal à l'exploitation des fuites de Wikileaks.
Simon Rogers



