a novel browsing interface designed for freebase, an open database of the world’s information, including Wikipedia, MusicBrainz, and the SEC archives...
“insanely useful Web sites” for government transparency. They provide a broad range of information available to track government and legislative information, campaign contributions and the role of money in politics.
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
a "ning" community designed strictly for the media, open government communities, journalists, non-profits, and others seeking transparency in our government.
a not-for-profit organization with the aim of promoting (and protecting) open knowledge -- any kind of content, information or data: genes to geodata, sonnets to statistics. strong emphasis on decentralized collaboration. primary aim is to help others develop open knowledge. Also develops specific projects (for example Open Shakespeare)
allows you to thread together 'factlets' into narratives which can be re-organized in a number of ways, at the click of a button. product of the open knowledge foundation
Sunlight Foundation. This bipartisan, collaborative initiative will study the Senate’s current information-sharing practices to recommend how to improve public access to the Senate’s work on the Web. This project is modeled off of Sunlight’s parallel initiative, the Open House Project.
We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access.
here's a lot of great information out there about politics — votes, lobbying records, campaign finance reports. Unfortunately, it's split across a dozen different web sites and often hidden behind confusing interfaces. We're pulling all of that together and letting you explore it in one elegant, unified interface. (Plus, we're sharing all the results so you can come up with new ways to explore it.)
designed to provide quick and easy access to a wide range of data on tax rates, collections and overall tax burdens. All data are posted in Excel when available.
Open access to 506,563 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics. Now hosted by Cornell University Library.
BASE is a multi-disciplinary search engine for scientifically relevant web resources harvested from OAI scientific repository servers. In addition to OAI metadata the library indexes selected web sites and local data collections, which can be searched via one single search interface in one go. created and developed by Bielefeld University Library. BASEsearch