A project that Erik Wilde and Eric Kansa (colleagues at the School of Information at Berkeley) and I have started tackling is tracking the flow of money from the Stimulus Package (aka the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009). The Obama Administration has set up recovery.gov to “feature information on how the Act is […]
I’m co-leading a meetup around government transparency in San Francisco next Wednesday, March 11, 2009: Democracy Web President Barack Obama has promised an era of unprecedented transparency for the US government. In anticipation of vast flows of data from the federal government in the weeks and months to come, we are organizing a SF Bay […]
The new About CC0 — “No Rights Reserved†Creative Commons license has been released as 1.0. This new license gives “creators a way to waive all their copyright and related rights in their works to the fullest extent allowed by law.” Great. Wondering when it’ll be available for regular users to associate with their own […]
Tagged creative commons, FlickrI just posed a question on the sunlightlabs api group (ok to push data sets and APIs to Freebase.com? – Sunlight Labs API Discussion | Google Groups): My question is whether it’s ok for me to upload some of the data I can get from http://services.sunlightlabs.com/api/ to freebase.com. Freebase then makes its collection of data […]
Tagged freebase, sunlighI’ve been thinking about how to prepare for tomorrow’s Build-A-Base tutorial at Freebase. I’ve already started building two bases: PolDB prototype — a prototype of an IMDB for American politicians Semantic History of Art Prototypes — something I want to develop into a NEH grant proposal For the PolDB project, I should sit down to […]
As I start to develop a database of politicians for a prototype of PolDB that I’m developing for the Apps for America contest, I will likely be using Google Maps to display state, county, and census boundaries. A good example of such maps to study is Webfoot Census Maps, which I found via Google Maps […]
I’ll be teaching my first online distance course this summer for the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne on Personal Information Management: How do individuals interact with the complicated streams of information directed at them and flowing from them? What theoretical constructs have been developed to model these […]
Tagged course, personal information managementIn response to my question on the Freebase developers list [Developers] how to get items with properties having null values?, Chris Maden of Metaweb quickly wrote me the following solution: To find all elements *with* boiling points: [ { “atomic_number” : null, “boiling_point” : { “value” : null }, “name” : null, “sort” : “atomic_number”, […]
Tagged chemistry, freebaseA student from my Mixing and Remixing Information class is interested in using Processing (“an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions”) in his project. I’ve been wondering what capabilities Processing has in terms of consuming web services. Here’s what I’ve found so far. First I […]
Tagged Processing, web servicesOfficial Google Data APIs Blog: Bringing OpenID and OAuth Together: We are happy to announce an important enhancement to our recently launched OpenID endpoint. Google now supports the “Hybrid Protocol”, combining OpenID federated login together with OAuth access authorization. Websites can now ask Google to sign-in a user using their Google Account, and at the […]
Tagged OAuth, OpenID