The Freak Parade » Data http://www.thefreakparade.com Strange noises from the mind of Nathan Stults... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:10:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 An annotated list of some open (free) data sources on the Internet http://www.thefreakparade.com/2008/05/an-annotated-list-of-some-open-free-data-sources-on-the-internet/ http://www.thefreakparade.com/2008/05/an-annotated-list-of-some-open-free-data-sources-on-the-internet/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 00:39:36 +0000 Nathan http://www.thefreakparade.com/2008/05/06/an-annotated-list-of-some-open-free-data-sources-on-the-internet/ By data sources I mean programmatically consumable databases. I haven’t spent enough time with this article to judge the quality of the data sources, but I did pop onto one of them (Freebase) and finally got a flash of insight into the potential of the semantic web. Anyway, these lists from Read Write Web are always well thought out and include top quality sites, so if you’re ever looking for some piece of data to feed a hungry app, this list may be a good place to start.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/where_to_find_open_data_on_the.php

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