Scraperwiki

"A community of programmers sifting information to give you the edge."


http://scraperwiki.com/

"To get at data, programmers write bits of code called ‘screen scrapers’, which extract the useful bits so they can be reused in other apps, or rummaged through by journalists and researchers. But these bits of code tend to break, get thrown away or forgotten once they have been used, and so the data is lost again. Which is bad.

ScraperWiki is an online tool to make that process simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor. In the free version, the code and data are shared with the world. Because it's a wiki, other programmers can contribute to and improve the code."

The full wiki

"We find similar sentences to those in Wikipedia, complete with their citations for you to paste into your essay. It's the easy way to branch off to find authoritative sources and relevant quotes to deepen your research."

http://www.thefullwiki.org/

GeneaQuilts - A System for Exploring Large Genealogies

"Genealogies are represented in the form of a layered, diagonally-filled matrix, which eliminates crossings and accommodates very large datasets in the order of thousands of individuals. By depicting individuals as rows and families as columns, with parents always at a higher layer (generation) than their children, the visualization exhibits marriage and parent/children relationships, as well as other interesting relationships such as cross-generational and consanguine marriages."

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2010/11/geneaquilts.html


http://www.aviz.fr/geneaquilts/

Topicmarks Summary of The Art of thangka midwifery

"A thangka painter however, is a facilitator or a midwife rather than an artist in the usual sense of the word. The child delivered by a midwife is not the midwife's own child. So the thangka painter is a visionary midwife. The mother of vision is creative space, so the thangka painter must be aligned with space and the thangka painted from the perspective of space rather than according to limited personal ideas. My motivation in wanting to paint thangkas was founded on the fact that the lineage of which Ngak'chang Rinpoche and I are the current Mind Lineage Holders desperately needed a thangka painter - and one who could train other painters. "

Original article: http://www.aroencyclopaedia.org/shared/text/t/thangka_midwifery_ar_eng.php

Summary: http://topicmarks.com/text/doc/93899b526fa19d9685411060d26c112d74

What do they know?

"Make or explore Freedom of Information requests"

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/

Trailmeme

"Trails -- visual maps of Web content -- allow you to go from feeling overwhelmed and anxious by the flood of disorganized real-time Web content coming at you, to a sense of control and mastery. By blazing trails you can create meaningful, annotated patterns and evolving stories out of Web content. When you publish your trails, others can benefit from your insights and commentary."

http://trailmeme.com/

Infomous

"Infomous is a revolutionary new way to navigate online information.

Use the navigation links [...] to explore Infomous. After our official launch, anyone will be able to set up an Infomous user account to create, edit and share their own clouds."

http://infomous.com/

Get the data

GetTheData is a Q&A site where you can ask your data related questions, including, but not limited to, the following:

* where to find data relating to a particular issue;
* how to query Linked Data sources to get just the data set you require;
* what tools to use to explore a data set in a visual way;
* how to cleanse data or get it into a format you can work with using third party visualisation or analysis tools.

http://getthedata.org/


http://getthedata.org/

Visual.ly

"Infographics and data visualizations are shifting the way people find and experience stories, creating a new way of seeing the world of data. They help communicate complex ideas in a clear, compact and beautiful way, taking deep data and presenting it in visual shorthand. We’ve collected the best examples on the web and gathered them for you to reference, share, and enjoy. "

http://visual.ly/

50 Ways to Transform Content into Information Products

"Any content you have created can be reworked and turned into multiple information products. Here is an idea list from Stephanie Chandler to get you started.

1. Books
2. Mini-books (they don’t all have to read like novels!)
3. Booklets
4. Ebooks
5. Special reports"

http://www.sellingbooks.com/50-ways-to-transform-content-into-information-products/

Eurovision 2009 Results Visualized

"Eurovision 2009 Results Visualized is a simple interactive visualization that aims to make the analysis of the past Eurovision Song Contest easier to understand."

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/07/eurovision_2009_results_visualized.html


http://blob.creanode.com/blob/eu2009/

Share Your Wisdom at TipsBase

"One person's worthless knowledge is another person's desperately needed information. If you're looking for a great place to share your technology tips, your never-fail cooking tricks, or your favorite bargain sites, and you don't want to start your own blog, head over to TipsBase. The service accepts tips and snippets of knowledge from anyone willing to share, and lets the community vote on how useful the information is."

http://www.appscout.com/2009/01/share_your_wisdom_at_tipsbase.php

Dataopedia.com - All you need to know about a website

"Gathering together data from more than 50 sources, dataopedia.com is an aggregation web service that lets its users find out all the valuable facts about any website, such as traffic, online buzz, contact information, popularity in social bookmarking services…in short, all the essential facts about every website you can come across on the internet."

http://dataopedia.com/

Lose Your Wikipedia Crutch: 100 Places to Go for Good Answers Online

"While Wikipedia isn’t likely to lose its status as the first place people look for quick answers anytime soon, there are loads of other sites out there that can provide you with information, some of which may even be better and more accurate. Whether you’re researching for a paper or just settling a bet with a friend, here are 100 places you can find all the answers you need quickly and easily online."

http://www.distancedegrees.com/2008/lose-your-wikipedia-crutch-100-places-to-go-for-good-answers-online/

Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network

CKAN is the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN is the place to search for open knowledge resources as well as register your own – be that a set of Shakespeare's works, a global population density database, the voting records of MPs, or 30 years of US patents.

http://ckan.net/

BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources

"Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas"

http://bubl.ac.uk/