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Great resource from NYTimes.com. All the data that's fit to mashup.
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"When we first started talking about creating and releasing APIs for databases collected by The Times, campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission was a natural choice. The upcoming presidential election has seen record fund-raising by the candidates and a host of new donors. Now we want our users to be able to analyze and reuse some of the data we’ve been looking at while reporting on the campaign."
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"At what point does metadata cross the line from useful to pollution? When it's not standardized. The kind of XML tagging we're primarily talking about can be sectioned into three buckets: rights data ('this picture is good for print products but not electronic ones,' 'we can use this graphic anywhere,' 'these animations are exclusively for the workbook'), formatting data ('this is a chapter,' 'this is a footnote'), and context data ('Paris,' '1955,' 'General Robert E. Lee,' 'noodles'). This is a perfect recipe for complete chaos."
