"If you’d like to use our Congress API but aren’t a programmer or Web developer, you still have a chance... Standard features of Windows versions of Microsoft Excel and of Google Spreadsheets make it possible to load data from the API directly into those applications."
W3C SWEO Community ProjectThe Open Data Movement aims at making data freely available to everyone. There are already various interesting open data sets availiable on the Web. Examples include Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Geonames, MusicBrainz, WordNet, the DBLP bibliography and many more which are published under Creative Commons or Talis licenses.
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