On December 3rd at the Barbican Centre in London, the Open Knowledge Foundation will be inviting everyone and anyone who can wrangle up a good bit of data or wrangle the wranglers of data, to a Seize the Data event. So they could do with some screen scraping, data extracting, coding extraordinaires (i.e. you). So […]
Growing back to the Future: Allotments in the UK, open data stories and interventions
This is a guest blog post from Farida Vis. She attended EuroHack at the Open Government Data Camp 2011. It consisted of a series of short talks combined with plenty of opportunities for hacking in groups in the second part the workshop. On the day, we were given an introduction to data driven journalism by data journalist Nicolas Kayser-Brill, who […]
Diggers and Dinosaurs – Scraping at the Mozilla Festival
In a complete paradigm shift of the epic battle between Godzilla and Mothra we are turning our backs on the old claymation medium and embracing the digital age where dinosaurs and diggers (yes, I am aware we are a machine and not a moth) can roam free across the lawless plains of web 2.0. Both […]
Scraping Government Data for the Open Government Data Camp
Come one, come all and gather ye ’round the fantastical scraping table at the Open Government Data Camp at Warsaw. Here you will see such mythical beasts the Irish man with the gift of the gab and the German obsessed with numbers and efficiency he has become part database. So head to Soho Factory in Warsaw, […]
Scraping New Frontiers
Today is Columbus Day in the US (yes, I’m working regardless). So I’ve decided to write a post about discovery. This has been my first full week in America. I have toiled Heathrow Terminal 5, battled through the baffling New York subway and scaled the mountains of food to find, well, not the promised land. […]
Constructing the Open Data Landscape
In an article in today’s Telegraph regarding Francis Maude’s Public Data Corporation, Michael Cross asks: “What makes the state think it can be at the cutting edge of the knowledge economy“. He writes in terms of market and business share, giving the example of the satnav market worth over $100bn a year yet it’s based […]
Open Data Events – Meet like minded folk
Just a quick shout out to upcoming Open Data events crying out for participation from well minded coding citizens like yourselves: Open Australia and ScraperWiki Hackfest: In sunny down under (Sydney) on 10-11 September. No travel bursaries but it is free! Sign up here. It’s a hacking extravaganza for anyone interested in helping liberate data or […]
We Eat Data – ScraperWiki talk at Open Knowledge Conference 2011
Our tamed computer programmer, ‘The Julian’, recently gave a rare appearance at the Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin (if you want an appearance pay us or ask us!). The spectacle of such scraping royalty drew more people than the room could accommodate (‘The Julian’ is not related to any royals living or deceased). As such […]
Opening Data at Open Knowledge Conference Berlin
If you haven’t already heard, the Open Knowledge Foundation is hosting a one week conference in Berlin next week. We’re very excited and will be running workshops on the Monday and Tuesday. We hope to meet some of our German users and opening data in the way we know best. It’s an all-star line up […]