[ckan-dev] buzzdata

Sat May 21 08:51:41 UTC 2011

Hi Seb,
I just stumbled across this site, just in case you weren't aware of it:

http://www.infochimps.com/

I like the UI (the first impression you get on landing on a page is
really positive). It seems that they give access to some of the actual
datasets through an API.
Looks like there is also data available for purchase, like the Pokemon
database (http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/pokemon-database) and
that the have a big team behind it.

Cheers,
Adrià

2011/5/18 Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at okfn.org>:
> Second in an occasional series of notes about
> competitors/collaborators to watch.
>
> Buzzdata is a startup based in Toronto that emailed ckan-discuss a bit
> ago saying they would launch in June.
>
> So there's not much to say about them yet.  I thought it was worth
> flagging because they say "like Github, BuzzData allows for version
> control — users can clone data, edit it, and merge it, while the
> original source and revision history of the data is always accessible"
>
> They also have some interesting things to say about provenance on their blog:
>
> http://blog.buzzdata.com/post/5546732052/buzzdata-is-taking-questions-got-some
>
> That's it for now,
>
> Seb
>
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