Mashing Up The Open Web - Mar 2010

Course Material

call chat week 6
Week 6: Reflections
Week 3: Why is open important to building a better web?
Week 5: How can I be open?
Week 2: Practical Technologies for Creating Mashups
Important Resources
Week 4: Leveraging open data
Week 1: What is Open?

Week 4: Leveraging open data

Wed, 2010-02-17 20:59

An overview of some available open datasets, and techniques for discovering new datasets. Coverage of REST, JSON, XML-RPC, SOAP, XML and any other required technologies based on the datasets used by the participants.

Open Street Maps
Wikipedia API
dbPedia
MusicBrainz
Numbrary
Freebase
FusionTables?
http://www.programmableweb.com/
http://www.freebase.com/
http://www.factual.com/

Screencast demonstration of sample project. Video discussion, Q&A.

Assignment: Work on your project. Ask for help as necessary. Collect data from the datasets you're interested in and publish the data, even if you aren't doing anything interesting with it yet.

revisions