Data sets tagged with "access-bulk"
Discogs: Discographies
Discogs is a community-built database of music information. Imagine a site with discographies of all labels, all artists, all cross-referenced, this is what Discogs strives to be. Here you will find monthly data dumps of Discogs Release, Artist, and Label data. The data is in XML format and formatted according to the API spec. License All material is in the public ...
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The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) Data
The E-PRTR, the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, was formally known as the EPER is the European Pollutant Emission Register – the first European-wide register of industrial emissions into air and water. The E-PRTR covers the 27 EU Member States as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Serbia and Switzerland. The register contains annual data reported ...
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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Elevation Data
Description From <http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/>: > … The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth. > > … > SRTM is an international project spearheaded by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National ...
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National Land and Property Gazetteer
Description From main site: > The NLPG is the first, definitive, national address list that provides unique identification of properties across England and Wales and conforms to the British Standard, BS 7666. Local government, and potentially the public and private sectors, can link their information systems to this high-quality source of addresses and accurate ...
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Federal Reserve Economic Data
Description
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), over 15,000 FREE US series. Download data. View charts. Get email updates. Create data lists.
Can browse data or download in bulk from <http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/downloaddata/>.
Openness: OPEN (?)
License: none specified but as Federal US Govt probably public domain.
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The CIA World Factbook
Description US government profiles of countries and territories around the world. Information on geography, people, government, transportation, economy, communications, etc. Openness: OPEN License: Public Domain: “The Factbook is in the public domain. Accordingly, it may be copied freely without permission of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).” ...
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Data Loss Database - Open Source
Since July of 2005, attrition.org has been tracking data loss and data theft incidents (whether confirmed, unconfirmed, or disputed) not just from the United States, but across the world. This list includes incidents that may or may not have resulted in information exposure. Our archives go back to the year 2000, and with over 136 MILLION records compromised in over 300 ...
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The Homer Multitext Project
Description From home page: > The Homer Multitext project, the first of its kind in Homeric studies, seeks to present the textual transmission of the Iliad and Odyssey in a historical framework. Such a framework is needed to account for the full reality of a complex medium of oral performance that underwent many changes over a long period of time. These changes, as ...
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European Food Safety Authority
About Overview: > The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is the keystone of European Union (EU) risk assessment regarding food and feed safety. In close collaboration with national authorities and in open consultation with its stakeholders, EFSA provides independent scientific advice and clear communication on existing and emerging risks. Downloading ...
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RCSB Protein Data Bank
Description As of August 2008 over 52 thousand structures available for download. From home page: > The RCSB PDB provides a variety of tools and resources for studying the structures of biological macromolecules and their relationships to sequence, function, and disease. > > The RCSB is a member of the wwPDB whose mission is to ensure that the PDB archive remains ...
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CEPR Data
Description From the front page: > ceprDATA.org provides consistent, user-friendly versions of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), Current Population Survey (CPS), and other datasets used at CEPR available to all interested policy researchers and academics. > > Each dataset listed above is available to download. In addition, you can download and ...
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GeoNames
The geonames.org geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over eight million geographical names and consists of 6.3 million unique features whereof 2.2 million populated places and 1.8 million alternate names. All features are categorized into one out of nine feature classes and further ...
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Open Street Map - UK Extracts
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UK extracts from [Open Street Map](http://ckan.net/package/read/osm).
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Open Clip Art Library
From the website:
> This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into the Public Domain according to the statement by the Creative Commons.
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Landsat Data
Description Landsat ETM+, TM, and MSS data are available from USGS for free. [Base data page](http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/where.html) leads on to: <http://eros.usgs.gov/products/satellite/landsat_ortho.html> Not entirely clear from that page you can actually get bulk downloads from however bulk of landsat data is on [geotorrent](http://geotorrent.org/) ...
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Querying Wikipedia like a Database
Description
From the front page:
> “DBpedia.org is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia and to link other datasets on the Web to Wikipedia data.”
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Planning Alerts Planning Applications Database
UK Planning Application data from a variety of councils across the UK. More information plus as full up-to-date list of councils covered can be found at:
<http://www.planningalerts.com/about.php>
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FreeBase
Description “Freebase is an open database of the world’s information. It is built by the community and for the community—free for anyone to query, contribute to, built applications on top of, or integrate into their websites.” Openness: OPEN License: cc-by + GFDL for wikipedia derived part (large). Access: ok but no bulk (perhaps via their query engine ...
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Research Papers in Economics
Openness: NOT OPEN
license: Restricts commercial use potentially. See <http://repec.org/docs/RePEcDataUse.html>. details: “You do not charge for it or include it in a service or product that is not free of charge.”
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Open Directory Project (ODP)
From [about page](http://www.dmoz.org/about.html): > The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. Openness: OPEN Access: good. (see tags) License: has a [bespoke license](http://www.dmoz.org/license.html) which looks [OKD ...
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