Posts tagged "Data.gov"

Talking about Social Data Discovery with Kevin Merritt of Socrata

An issue with many of the current initiatives to provide access to data is that they focus on one particular mode of access. As a rule, they tend to either offer a pretty interface that facilitates end-user exploration of a constrained set of data, or they proudly offer a massive list of files for download,...

Talking with Jim Hendler and Li Ding about Data.gov

My latest podcast is with Jim Hendler and Li Ding of the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York state. They’re part of a team converting some of the Federal Government data on the new Data.gov portal to RDF, and we talk about both how the work is going, and what it...