A great link Fiona: and look - someone's already come up with a good idea with echoes of what many of us have been talking about for years: http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/2008/07/the-creative-br.html
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Subject: Government-sponsored public data competition
The UK Government's 'Power of Information Taskforce' is running a competition, with a £20,000 prize fund, to encourage innovative uses of public data. They've released gigabytes of new data, including a neighbourhood statistics API.
http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/
Aside from the obvious opportunity to create a service that usefully combines government and museum data, this is yet another compelling example of the web services approach.
(Incidentally, I discovered this via a tweet from DowningStreet, http://twitter.com/DowningStreet/statuses/848358765)
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