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Mashing Up The Open Web - Mar 2010
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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/
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.
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