Free training at LIFT
We are organizing the following workshop at the LIFT conference, Geneva, 25th February 25th 2009. The workshop is free (once you have the LIFT pass) but you need to register.
LIFT is a series of events to inspire and connect the community of doers and thinkers exploring the social impact of new technologies. Each LIFT conference is a three days experience made of talks, workshops, interactive art and discussions to understand and anticipate the most important social changes, and meet the people behind them.
Workshop: Get data for your commercial project!
Imagine you have just got a great idea to make a revolutionary recommender or trends analysis system for music, restaurants, people tracking, marketing, politics or something else. Where will you get the data from?In this workshop we'll tell you about the huge collections of datasets already available nowadays. Some data collections are free of charge (e.g. world-gazetteer.com) and some are priced (e.g. imdb.com licensing packages start at US$15000 / year). Some grant you full access (e.g. you can download the whole MusicBrainz database) and for some you must use their API, with restricted queries per day (e.g. Amazon ECS). Terms of use of such datasets will also be discussed.
Come to this workshop and you will get a quick overview of the data collections already available today for your commercial project!!
Some examples:
- General: DBPedia (a structured version of Wikipedia), Freebase.org, Google Base
- Geographical database: world-gazetteer.com, geonames.org (also worldwide zip codes with geo-coordinates), maxmind.com (location by IP, priced)
- Trajectory data: transit data, people tracking
- Public government and organizations: data.un.org, EDGAR db
- TV guide (EPG): xmltv (free), tvtv.co.uk (priced)
- Movie: imdb.com (priced), Allmovie.com (priced)
- Music: MusicBrainz (free and priced), freedb.org (free), MuzeMusic (priced)
- Products: Amazon ECS, icecat.biz (free and priced)
- More: Flickr, weather.com, Project Gutenberg (free books, free), News, events (zvents.com, eventful.com, happenr.com), Transit data, Global -Terrorism Database
- Dictionaries and other lexical resources, Scientific databases (DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan), CiteSeer)
- Collections of databases/APIs: swivel.com, Many Eyes, programmableweb, Wikipedia online-databases, Google Affiliate Network (only some partners offer data feeds)
Come to this workshop and you will get a quick overview of the data collections already available today for your commercial project!!
Contact: DAvid Portabella <david.portabella@db4all.com>