Driven in large part by open government efforts initiated by the Obama Administration, and particularly Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, tremendous and rich data sets have become available from the federal government, as well as some state and local governments. This data is published digitally, in organized, well-known and documented formats.
Category: Public Brainstorm
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent proposal to adopt so-called e-textbooks for his state's public school system has triggered a flurry of press coverage, as well as new products like the Kindle DX and CourseSmart's iPhone app in the market.
I've lately been exploring the value proposition of RESTful APIs to organizations whose technological infrastructures are built upon a collection of legacy software components, customized to communicate with each other by highly tailored middleware software stacks.