[okfn-help] [SPAM] Open Factbook

[Graham Higgins]

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On 17 Jun 2010, at 18:50, William Waites wrote:

> Peter Buneman told me a story today about some people who
> are making machine readable versions of the CIA World
> Factbook available online and selling them for £1500 or so.

I'm curious as to what the difference is between this and the several  
other machine readable versions that are around.

> then listing them in CKAN so they'll get indexed and such.

The factbook listing appears to have been on CKAN since 2007:

http://www.ckan.net/package/cia-world-factbook

InfoChimps has it: http://infochimps.org/datasets/the-cia-world-factbook

also MONDIAL http://www.dbis.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/Mondial/

wiwiss have a D2R front-end: http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/factbook/

and there's even an ontology:

http://www.daml.org/2003/09/factbook/

I got my copy from soton's aktors program:

http://www.aktors.org/interns/2005/cia/CIA%20World%20Factbook%20to%20RDF.htm

which provides a perl-based conversion from HTML (the factbook "print"  
version, 2006 version still available via archive.org) to RDF.

> Jordan, thoughts about how to license this properly?


The CIA World Factbook is very specifically in the Public Domain.



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Cheers,

Graham

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