Posted on 01/04/2011 7:07:54 AM PST by epithermal
Government agencies around the world make billions of bits of raw data available to the public each day, but this data is often in difficult formats or so widely spread around the Web it is virtually unusable to the public and scientists who seek to use this valuable information in their research.
Computer scientists within the Tetherless World Research Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed an application to help solve the problem. A collaboration with scientific publisher Elsevier, the application utilizes the U.S. government data warehouse, Data.gov, to provide scientists with easy and direct access to government data sets relevant to their research.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.rpi.edu ...
http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Demos
one of which is: White House Visitor Search
http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Demo:_White_House_Visitor_Search
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