Get the Data
|
What indexes of data sets are available for searching? |
|
CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network): http://ckan.net/ CKAN is an open registry of datasets ("packages"). CKAN and its associated tools aim to make it easy to find, use and share data in a scalable way. Over 1600 entries (as of 16/01/2011) covering world-wide open and non-open datasets. @kitwallace: hope you won't me reworking your text a bit :)
(17 Jan '11, 20:00)
rgrp ♦♦
Of course not - you should take the karma too - cheeky of me to add CKAN at all :-)
(17 Jan '11, 22:45)
kitwallace
|
|
data.gov.uk is a partial index of open UK government data. I think it's actually a partial view over content in CKAN? OKFN also host a List of European Open Data Catalogues I think that data stored in Google spreadsheets is searchable? You can also search for queries that folk have made on to google spreadsheets using queries of the form: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=university+site:spreadsheets.google.com/tq To look at the spreadsheet being queried, use the key in a URL of the form: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=KEY 1
http://data.gov.uk is powered by the CKAN software but at the moment is running on a separate db from the main CKAN instance at http://ckan.net/. BTW, there are now almost 28 CKAN instances around the world -- see http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/instances. We have a new meta-search that searches all these CKANs and other cataloges http://opendatasearch.org (not quite officially launched so please don't announce yet!)
(17 Jan '11, 19:29)
rgrp ♦♦
|
|
Data for Neighbourhoods and Regeneration (Data4nr.net) catalogues datasets that are "available for targeting, monitoring, priority setting and performance management at a neighbourhood level." Datasets are catalogued according to theme. Themes include:
Links to datasets relating to National Indicators are also provided. I believe that pretty much all data4nr data has been merged into data.gov.uk.
(22 Jan '11, 00:16)
rgrp ♦♦
|
|
Take a look at Open Data Directory, which now indexes over 20K datasets from many sources. Another tool is opendatasearch.org. |
|
We have a bunch of data sets indexed at Infochimps, as well as a large number of them accessible via API... |
|
d8taplex is an index of time series data gathered from a number of government sites. There are >300k time series indexed by the tables they are found in (excel, html or text). Update: now >1MM time series. |
|
Zanran is a search engine whose results listings point to documents (PDFs, HTML, etc) that contain numerical data tables: http://www.zanran.com/q/ Indexing is based in part on text surrounding embedded tables/images. |
|
Thanks these are the best sources though you need to register and search by individual data tables which contains full ownership details Byregards CW My site: iPhone 4S Cases |
