[OpenSpending-discuss] API Open Source Exchange Rates - Deflator

Tue Jan 31 12:05:53 UTC 2012

Hi Christian

The GDP Deflators thing is a problem that needs solving! - as is
historical exchange rates. That API is really great (although I think the
data is not actually openly licensed as it's been extracted from
commercial sites?).

This package also has some historical exchange rates (going back to the
1950s in some cases):
http://thedatahub.org/dataset/exchanges-rates

I think the US (and maybe ECB?) data on that package is probably openly
licensed, but I'm not sure about the OECD... might be worth checking - I
think it's the most complete data. If so, perhaps that API could be
converted fairly easily to serve the historical OECD data?

Mark

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[mailto:openspending-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Christian Kreutz
Sent: 31 January 2012 11:19
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Subject: [OpenSpending-discuss] API Open Source Exchange Rates - Deflator

Hello!

Just want to link to this great resource: An API for Open Source Exchange
Rates, which might be of interest for some spending projects.
http://josscrowcroft.github.com/open-exchange-rates/

The second point is a question, whether somebody works on deflators?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDP_deflator) There is already some stuff
being done: http://wiki.openspending.org/Financial_Transformations_Toolkit
, but I wonder if others have the same problem, that they have financial
data for some years and need to calculate the value change (e.g. inflation
rate).

Best regards,

Christian

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