opendata / Open-Data-Needs

An ongoing effort to catalog the holes in the open data ecosystem. [RETIRED]
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Inventory existing open data holdings on a given domain name #13

Open waldoj opened 9 years ago

waldoj commented 9 years ago

It's difficult for governments to figure out what open data sets they're already publishing. Realistically, an employee just has to search for site:example.gov inurl:json and start paging through the results. It'd be really helpful to have a tool that can automatically find every machine-readable file on a given domain, gather metadata for each of those, optionally filter out noise (e.g., XML config files), and generate a data.json file (or something like that) inventorying everything.

will-saunders commented 8 years ago

Very cool. 73 API's for wa.gov, many of which I didn;t know about.

waldoj commented 8 years ago

Great!