Thursday, December 30, 2010

Setting government data free with ScraperWiki

http://foiadvocate.blogspot.com/2010/12/setting-government-data-free-with.html
from programmable web: Civic minded hackers from all over the world recently organized themselves for action as a part of the International Open Government Hackathon. The team from Portland, Oregon decided to make use of a platform called ScraperWiki that can grab data from government websites and turn into more consumable formats via the ScraperWiki API....The ScraperWiki work highlights a