194 data sets released!
The USA based Technology Review published by MIT has published a news article titled: Behind the Big Apple's Data Dump - NYC releases a wealth of data--but with a positive spin. The article describes the release of 194 data sets by New York City and the opening of a competition with a prize tag of $20000. The competition opened on the 6 October 2009 and will close on 8 December 2009 after which voting will take place.
The article states:
“Becoming the latest municipality to fling open stores of data, New York City yesterday released 194 datasets--on everything from restaurant inspections and property sales to traffic data and the locations of laundry facilities. The city also launched a $20,000 competition to develop software applications using this data.”
The New York City data mine information portal states:
“The City of New York Data Mine increases the accessibility of public data generated by the various New York City agencies. As part of an initiative to improve the accessibility, transparency, and accountability of City government, this catalog supplies access to a repository of government-produced, machine-readable data sets. The data sets are available in a variety of machine-readable formats and are refreshed when new data becomes available. Data is presented by category or by City agency. Descriptions of the data, the collection method, and other contextual material, called metadata, make the data sets easier to understand and use.”
The NYC BigApps competition announcement states:
The City of New York is improving the way it provides information and transparency to citizens. But delivering great information requires great tools. The NYC BigApps Competition will reward the developers of the most useful, inventive, appealing, effective, and commercially viable applications for delivering information from the City of New York's NYC.gov Data Mine to interested users.
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