SDMX and RDF: Getting Acquainted

SDMX
SDMX (Statistical data and metadata exchange) is a widely accepted standard for communicating data  in the realm of official statistics.
‘SDMX is an initiative to foster standards for the exchange of statistical information. Sponsored by BIS – ECB – EUROSTAT – IMF – OECD – UN – World Bank.’
More and more applications accept and [...]

World Bank Data Visualizer

World bank launches an interactive visualizing tool resembling gapminder, it’s called Data Visualizer.

‘The time series used in Data Visualizer is a subset of 2009 World Development Indicators database. It contains 49 indicators for 209 countries and 18 aggregates from 1960-2007. Data includes social, economic, financial, information & technology, and environmental indicators.’
Tools allow to change the [...]

Google’s Interest in Statistics

Google’s interest in statistics is steadily growing. And this not least because Ola Rosling now works with Google and pushes visualization tools like motion chart and the public-data project.
In his presentation at the Gov 2.0 in Washington (September 2009) Ola Rosling presents theese tools: Ola Rosling, “Seeing Data as Change Over Time”

Accessing [...]

About necessary and unnecessary things

In a interview given at a technology symposium at the Embassy of Finland in Washington (15 October 2009), ‘Berners-Lee speaks about the importance for governments to place great amounts of data on the Web and the emergence of the semantic Web. He cites successful examples in Britain.’

And he repeats what he already said in one [...]

Small steps

There are specialized search engines like sig.ma using semantic technology (but working in niches), and there are the big search machines slowly starting to use such an approach. Yahoo does it for some time already and Google goes RDFa and microformats.
Google looks for markup formats (microformats and RDFa) and displays reviews and ratings and also [...]