[okfn-discuss] theinfo.org

Wed Jan 16 11:43:13 UTC 2008

Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Aaron Swartz just passed on details of a new site he's released for 
> people who with large datasets:
> 
>   http://theinfo.org/

Looks great. On several items it would be nice though to see if we could 
find a way to collaborate -- particularly where some of what they is 
very similar to some of our existing projects. For example:

"Data sets. Help us build the most comprehensive list of big data sets 
available on the Web."

CKAN is already there for doing exactly that. Similarly Open Economics 
already is doing some stuff on storage and visualization. We should 
probably join the mailing list(s) (e.g. [1]) and make suggestions. Plus 
we should definitely post an announcement blog item about it -- I think 
this is indicative of a gathering wave in this area of open 
data/knowledge ...

~rufus

[1]: http://groups.google.com/group/get-theinfo/)