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Where's the Open Data?

Posted by Cliff on from the diamonds-in-the-rough dept.

blamanj asks: "There's a lot of open-source code around, and generally, it's quite easy to find. Finding open source data, on the other hand, can be quite a pain. Why isn't there a common reponsitory for public domain data sets? I'm thinking of things like lists of world cities, dictionaries of stemmed words, population data, etc., etc."

3 of 56 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Your Tax Dollars At Work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    WATCH OUT!!

    That link uses a redirect, to point you to Goatse. Stupid mods that mod up without checking links, they avoid being goatse'd while putting the readers at greater risk.

  2. Re:How 'common' do you need it? by tswinzig · · Score: 3, Troll

    Slashdot ought to implement a new filter for its comments section in preferences: Score penalty for reference to Google in Ask Slashdot question.

    Unfortunately, most of the Ask Slashdot's are so lame they can be answered with a simple google search.

    The editor that posts the Ask Slashdot should first see if he can easily answer the question with a google search before posting the article.

    --

    "And like that ... he's gone."
  3. Because by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You have to do something called research, you lazy sack of shit.