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Can Australia get an open Open Data Catalogue?

Posted in OpenAustralia on Nov 23rd, 2011

I read over at Craig Thomler’s eGov AU blog that Brisbane City Council has launched their own open data catalogue site. Great news, right? Not entirely. Unfortunately it appears to be yet another Australian site reinventing the open-data-catalogue-wheel. So far we have: data.gov.au: custom WordPress site data.brisbane.qld.gov.au: custom WordPress site data.nsw.gov.au: custom PHP (Drupal?) site [...]

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Featured on ScraperWiki

Posted in Hacking, OpenAustralia on May 27th, 2011

I’ve been using the online (sorry, cloud) open data scraping tool, ScraperWiki for some time now. We’ve written a bunch of scrapers that are being used by PlanningAlerts and I’ve also created a few for other bits of data I am interested in or that I’ve been commissioned by clients to write. For the second [...]

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