Comments on: World Bank data now available through APIs http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/09/04/world-bank-data-now-available-through-apis/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bienvenido a WwW.UrBaNiCaNo.NeT:Tf http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/09/04/world-bank-data-now-available-through-apis/#comment-125356 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:19:32 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=600#comment-125356 [...] Y es muy impresionante porque con esa API y un poco de creatividad podés olvidarte de la dependencia de algunos estudios anuales o que solo se hacían bajo pedido y acceder a los 114 indicadores clave del banco y hasta sus 12.000 de sus fotos.. para hacer el mashup o comparación que se te ocurra. Ej: Los kWh que consumen China USA e India sobre la población de cada uno de ellos [...]

]]> By: The World Bank Opens API to Key Global Data http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/09/04/world-bank-data-now-available-through-apis/#comment-125271 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:11:52 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=600#comment-125271 [...] total, the API offers 114 indicators. Jon Udell catalogs the list of indicators in his recent post “World Bank data now available through APIs” (there’s also an interesting thread of discussion about REST API design and how the World [...]

]]> By: Kingsley Idehen http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/09/04/world-bank-data-now-available-through-apis/#comment-125261 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:52:00 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=600#comment-125261 Jon,

And I assume you see the value in making this available as structured linked data such that all the constituent entities of domain become directly referencable via URIs?

Once the above is in place, anyone can mix, match, mesh (not mash), and share their insights via the Web (i.e. pages that are transparent re. access to entities from this data space).

The API is basically a CLI, and the process of turning this into Linked Daa is akin to implementing an ODBC / JDBC Driver (which is how we are converting exising Web content into Linked Data on the fly via RDFization Cartridges).

Will ping you once this is available ;-)

Kingsley

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/09/04/world-bank-data-now-available-through-apis/#comment-125241 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:19:52 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=600#comment-125241 > Gapminder (http://gapminder.org/) is
> mostly based on this data, I think.

That’s a good call Ian!

Here’s what I though would be the Gapminder permalink to the equivalent chart:

http://tinyurl.com/64ugs6

Can’t seem to get the link to recreate the chart, though.

]]> By: Ian Bicking http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/09/04/world-bank-data-now-available-through-apis/#comment-125237 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:35:27 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=600#comment-125237 Gapminder (http://gapminder.org/) is mostly based on this data, I think.

]]> By: El Banco Mundial libera sus datos con una API | Denken Über http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/09/04/world-bank-data-now-available-through-apis/#comment-125236 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:31:53 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=600#comment-125236 [...] Y es muy impresionante porque con esa API y un poco de creatividad podés olvidarte de la dependencia de algunos estudios anuales o que solo se hacían bajo pedido y acceder a los 114 indicadores clave del banco y hasta sus 12.000 de sus fotos.. para hacer el mashup o comparación que se te ocurra. Ej: Los kWh que consumen China USA e India sobre la población de cada uno de ellos [...]

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