Datamob: datasets

LibraryThing Web Services API

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:21:56 -0500

RESTful XML-based API for querying the LibraryThing Common Knowledge database of interesting facts about books. Developer key required. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

See the announcement on LibraryThing for more information.

See also the LibraryThing Books API.

url: http://www.librarything.com/services/webservices.php

New Zealand Legislation

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:34:42 -0500

Text of New Zealand Acts, Bills and Regulations. Their RSS feed can be put to good use.

submitted by: Rob McKinnon

url: http://legislation.govt.nz/

Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) API

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:54:07 -0500

RESTful API for querying the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network's database of "open knowledge" packages and projects.

url: http://www.ckan.net/api/rest/

TheMiddleClass.org Scorecard Data

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:43:15 -0500

Download TheMiddleClass.org's scorecard data for U.S. legislation calculated according to potential impact on the middle class. CSV format.

url: http://themiddleclass.org/csv

FUTEF Wikipedia API

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:36:26 -0500

Search API for accessing Wikipedia content. Available for non-commercial use.

url: http://api.futef.com/apidocs.html

BBC Backstage: Feeds & APIs

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:28:20 -0500

BBC TV and radio data, programme catalogue information, search API and more. Available for non-commercial use with attribution.

url: http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/Data

Notices from the London Gazette

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:12:36 -0500

All notices published in the London Gazette, the UK government’s official journal and newspaper of record, in XML from February 2007 to May 2008.

url: http://www.londongazette.co.uk/mashup/gazettesdata.htm

UK Neighbourhood Statistics API

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:59:37 -0500

SOAP-based API from the UK Office of National Statistics for accessing data about UK neighborhoods. Includes data on the 2001 Census, Access to Services, Community Well-Being/Social Environment, Crime and Safety, Economic Deprivation, Education, Skills and Training, Health and Care, Housing, Indicators, Indices of Deprivation, People and Society, Physical Environment and Work Deprivation.

Read more about the data here.

url: http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/Info.do?page=nde.htm

NPR API

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:16:19 -0500

Query an archive of National Public Radio content dating back to 1995. Returns results in RSS, MediaRSS, JSON, Atom and custom NPRML formats.

See the announcement on NPR.org for more information.

url: http://www.npr.org/api/

Geographically Based Economic Data (G-Econ)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:39:17 -0500

Geophysically scaled economic dataset, containing economic activity for each 1x1 degree latitude-by-longitude cell on the globe. By Professor William Nordhaus of Yale University. Microsoft Excel format. Public domain.

url: http://gecon.yale.edu/