Simon Willison’s Weblog

Using Freebase Gridworks to Create Linked Data. A very handy tutorial from data.gov.uk’s Jeni Tennison.

# 23rd August 2010, 8:11 pm / data, datagovuk, freebase, gridworks, jenitennison, recovered

World Government Data. Launched last week, this is the Guardian’s meta-search engine for searching and browsing through data from four different government data sites (with more sites planned). Under the hood it’s Django, Solr, Haystack and the Scrapy crawling library. The application was built by Ben Firshman during an internship over Christmas.

# 27th January 2010, 12:27 pm / django, solr, haystack, scrapy, ben-firshman, guardian, projects, python, data, datagovuk

Applications: the real stars of the data.gov.uk launch. A write-up of the data.gov.uk launch event at the Guardian. I demonstrated the Guardian’s World Government Data search engine and a small data.gov.uk inspired feature on WildlifeNearYou.

# 27th January 2010, 12:23 pm / wildlifenearyou, projects, guardian, datagovuk