[euopendata] Idea: screen scraping sprint

Fri Oct 1 16:14:56 UTC 2010

Hi Antti

Sounds like an interesting idea and could certainly help increase the amount of machine-readable data around.  My preference is to persuade/educate/help the data owners to publish it in a machine-readable way to start with, but of course that isn't going to happen overnight, so pursuing both approaches in parallel might be the best way.

Regards

Bill 

On 1 Oct 2010, at 11:50, Antti Poikola wrote:

> 
> Hi people,
> 
> I just got an idea that we could organize maybe even global screen scraping day/camp/sprint with the idea to create open API:s to government data by programming screen scrapers to existing public, but technically not open data sources?
> 
> So far just a vague idea... anybody interested to brainstorm it further?
> 
> -Jogi
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