Hiya,
I know the ultimate goal here is to get hold of govt data in more accessible
ways, but I just wanted to share these posts from colleagues in the UK. There
are numerous approaches for turning bog standard content into data feeds:
http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2009/07/07/scraping-scripting-hacking/
This one on how to data scrape Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets was
particularly interesting to me:
http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/data-scraping-wikipedia-with-google-spreadsheets/
I still maintain that the best thing govt can do in the first instance is to
get the data out any way they can. If it's online in any fashion, chances are
people can do something with it. Ultimately this approach won't cut it, but
it's a first step that most govt department should be able handle. And while
they are doing that we can work on encouraging the best practice approaches.
IMHO!
Hear hear!
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Andy Neale <email obscured>>wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> I know the ultimate goal here is to get hold of govt data in more
> accessible ways, but I just wanted to share these posts from colleagues in
> the UK. There are numerous approaches for turning bog standard content into
> data feeds:
>
> http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2009/07/07/scraping-scripting-hacking/
>
> This one on how to data scrape Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets was
> particularly interesting to me:
>
>
>
http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/data-scraping-wikipedia-with-google-spreadsheets/
Rest of post
>
>
> I still maintain that the best thing govt can do in the first instance is
> to get the data out any way they can. If it's online in any fashion, chances
> are people can do something with it. Ultimately this approach won't cut it,
> but it's a first step that most govt department should be able handle. And
> while they are doing that we can work on encouraging the best practice
> approaches. IMHO!
>
> Andy
>
>
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