On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 11:55, Jeremy Ottevanger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Thanks Mike. An interesting set indeed. Personally I find the "Spend over £25,000 in Imperial War Museums" set to be ... informative (including what it doesn't show, since it looks like expenditure that's spread over multiple months may not be included). But there's much more interesting stuff in there too.

This is of course all downloadable datasets as opposed to APIs. There are many pub conversations to be had about the shift in emphasis away from dynamic, functional endpoints with (relatively) complex data structures, and which has a pre-determined set of operations available that a developer can build an appication directly on top of; and towards data dumps that may be simplified and flattened but just make it easy to work with a static subset of that data and do what you please. I think it says as much about what users of the data actually want to do with it as it does about what's expedient to provide. That said there are plenty of cases where organisations take both of these approaches and I guess this means they can better satisfy developers and data geeks of all varieties.

There's some sort of natural rhythm cycling between those extremes. As far as the Google Dataset work and the Schema.org schemas that it uses, there are some active (and public - all views welcomed) discussions about how to integrate some notion of "Web API" into the general approach - see https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1423#issuecomment-383737970

Dan
 

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On 06/09/2018 10:20, Mike Ellis wrote:
You may have seen this already, but in case not - Google launched a new “dataset search” tool:


Some quite interesting stuff there:


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Mike


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