Datamob: resources

USGovXML

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:45:34 -0500

Index to the publicly availably web services and XML data sources provided by the U.S. government.

url: http://www.usgovxml.com/

Data.gov

Thu, 21 May 2009 13:57:48 -0500

Catalog of public datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the U.S. Federal Government.

url: http://data.gov

Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge

Thu, 21 May 2009 13:53:51 -0500

Development contest from Sunlight Labs rewarding developers that use any of the data sources on Data.gov to create applications. Judges include Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media and Chris DiBona, open source program manager at Google.

url: http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/

GovFresh

Sun, 10 May 2009 12:30:04 -0500

A live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr accounts and more.

url: http://govfresh.com/

Circos

Sun, 10 May 2009 11:30:22 -0500

A GPL-licensed visualization tool that can help show relationships in data.

url: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/circos/

Real-World Data Sets

Sun, 10 May 2009 11:12:32 -0500

A list of small real-world data sets collected from the web.

url: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/introcs/data/

Our Open Government List

Sun, 10 May 2009 10:28:27 -0500

Area to submit and vote on ideas for inclusion in U.S. President Obama's forthcoming Open Government Directive.

url: http://feedback.sunlightfoundation.com/oogl/

Hacking Congress

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:17:11 -0500

Hub for projects at the intersection of civics and technology, focusing on projects related to the U.S. Congress and state-level legislatures.

url: http://www.hackingcongress.org/

Yes We Scan

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:23:44 -0500

Website of the campaign to appoint Carl Malamud Public Printer of the United States, head of the Government Printing Office. Endorsed by Datamob.

url: http://yeswescan.org/

CloudMade

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:40:58 -0600

CloudMade provides a variety of resources to help developers build location-based apps using data from OpenStreetMap, including geocoding services and a mapping API with wrappers for Ruby, Python, and Java.

url: http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects