Datamob: book

MONDIAL database

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:21:00 -0400

Geographical database compiled from the CIA World Factbook and other sources. RDF, XML and other formats.

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

Network Datasets Compiled by Mark Newman

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:05:56 -0400

A collection of network datasets drawn from studies of human social networks, dolphin social networks, works of literature, power grids, books, blogs and more. Compiled by Mark Newman, professor of physics at the University of Michigan.

url: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/netdata/

QuotationsBook Database

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:49:05 -0400

40,000+ quotations downloadable in XML format and available under a Creative Commons license.

url: http://quotationsbook.com/services/

CIA World Factbook

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:57:37 -0400

Public-domain information about the countries of the world from the U.S. government, downloadable as a compressed Zip of HTML files.

url: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Stanford Copyright Renewal Database

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:11:28 -0400

Downloadable dataset of 250,000 records on U.S. copyright renewal for books published between 1950 and 1995.

url: http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home

Amazon ISBN Similarity Graph

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:36:18 -0400

Output of a crawl of Amazon.com's item similarity API from January 18, 2008 for ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers). ASCII text and XML. By Aaron Swartz.

url: http://www.archive.org/details/amazon_similarity_isbn/

Open Library API

Sat, 24 May 2008 21:33:54 -0400

Query the Open Library database, the goal of which is to provide one web page for every book ever published.

url: http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api

BookMooch API

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:08:18 -0400

Query or download the database for BookMooch, a book exchange community. ASCII text and XML formats. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

url: http://bookmooch.com/api/

LibraryThing Books API

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:12:15 -0400

JSON-based API for LibraryThing book data. Licensing is still being finalized.

url: http://www.librarything.com/blog/2008/07/introducing-librarything-books-api.php

LibraryThing Web Services API

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:21:56 -0400

RESTful XML-based API for querying the LibraryThing Common Knowledge database of interesting facts about books. Developer key required. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

See the announcement on LibraryThing for more information.

See also the LibraryThing Books API.

url: http://www.librarything.com/services/webservices.php

StatLib Datasets Archive

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:11:39 -0400

Collection of datasets from books and articles via Carnegie Mellon University's StatLib community.

url: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/

Social Bookmarking Data

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:20:04 -0500

Social-ODP-2k9 is a dataset created during December 2008 and January 2009 with data retrieved from Delicious and StumbleUpon, the Open Directory Project and the web. It contains 12,616 unique URLs along with their corresponding social annotations:

- Number of users annotating it, from Delicious

- Top 10 list of tags, from Delicious

- Full Tag Activity (FTA), from Delicious

- Notes, from Delicious

- Reviews, from StumbleUpon

- URL category, from the Open Directory Project

Available for research purposes. Compiled by Arkaitz Zubiaga.

url: http://nlp.uned.es/social-tagging/socialodp2k9/

DeliciousT140 Dataset

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:26:58 -0500

DeliciousT140 is a dataset created during June 2008 with data retrieved from the social bookmarking site Delicious and the web. It contains 144,574 unique URLs, all of them with their corresponding social tags retrieved from Delicious. This set of documents is annotated with 67,104 different tags.

Available for research purposes. Compiled by Arkaitz Zubiaga.

url: http://nlp.uned.es/social-tagging/delicioust140/

Delicious Folksonomy Dataset: 2007-2008

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:38:16 -0500

This dataset contains all public bookmarks and associated tag assignments of about 950,000 Delicious users, retrieved between December 2007 and April 2008. The full corpus is about 7GB of compressed data and is one of the largest folksonomy datasets used in research so far. See this post and this publication for more details on how it's been used.

Compiled by Robert Wetzker.

url: http://robertwetzker.com/2009/06/25/delicious-dataset-for-download/

Delicious Folksonomy Dataset: September 2009

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:20:30 -0500

Dataset comprised of 1.25 million Delicious bookmarks, retrieved in September 2009.

Compiled by Arvind Narayanan.

url: http://arvindn.livejournal.com/116137.html

Amazon Book Map

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:58:57 -0400

Dense mosaic of over 700,000 book covers, color coded by book category and grouped together according to similarity. By Chris Harrison.

url: http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html

softcover

Sat, 09 May 2009 11:37:11 -0400

Softcover is kind enough to email you when books come out in paperback. By Jonathan Soma.

url: http://softcover.xoxosoma.com/

Know Thy Congressman

Sun, 10 May 2009 10:43:37 -0400

A browser bookmarklet which displays an abundance of political and biographical information about current members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Highlight the name of a member on a web page and click the bookmarklet for an informative overlay.

url: http://know-thy-congressman.com/

Gotta Etsy

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:45:22 -0400

iPhone OS 3.0 application for searching and browsing shops and listings on Etsy, a global handmade marketplace. Offers the ability to bookmark listings for future reference. By Jacob Yelizarov.

url: http://www.apptism.com/apps/gotta-etsy

NYC Way

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:17:05 -0500

NYC Way is an iPhone application that bundles a variety of local resources useful for residents and tourists alike. It happens to be one of the first mobile apps to combine a wide variety of datasets from NYC.gov (along with various third-party datasets), location awareness and social media. Experience the power of 30+ NYC-related iPhone apps packaged into one.

Based around the theme of making our government more transparent, NYC Way is a first step to help NYC.gov share their rich datasets with the rest of us. It uses various datasets from NYC Data Mine, and many others available via NYC.gov.

NYC Way is location-aware and provides you with information sorted by proximity. The app allows you to update your Facebook status or send out a tweet about any place you discovered or visited.

In an upcoming release, we plan to implement real-time location v/s interest analysis, and hook the app up to a sophisticated Complex Event Processing backend that will correlate user interests and actions with current situation and location to make valuable local recommendations.

NYC Way includes all of the following and more:

Nearest wifi hotspot locations
NYC restaurant inspection results
Major NYC tourist attractions
NYC street eats (NYC street vendors)
NYC coffee shops
NYC gadget stores
NYC events
NYC live traffic cams and traffic updates
NYC subway station locations and alerts
NYC police stations, wanted criminals, average emergency response times, ERs and more
Nearest waste disposal sites and waste collection schedules
Nearest post offices, 24-hour pharmacies, Zipcar locations
Swine flu vaccination locator, parking ticket search, can I park here
Volunteer opportunities
NYC local news including the New York Times, New York Post and WNBC
NYC recreation information including ice-skating rinks, zoos, aquariums and museums

submitted by: Shariq

url: http://www.nycway.com

GovFresh

Sun, 10 May 2009 12:30:04 -0400

A live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr accounts and more.

url: http://govfresh.com/