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Get data for your commercial project!
Moderator: David Portabella
Preferred time:
10:00
Get data for your commercial project!
Imagine you have just got a great idea to make a revolutionary recommender or trends analysis system for music, restaurants, people tracking, marketing, politics or something else.
Where will you get the data from?
In this workshop we'll tell you about the huge collections of datasets already available nowadays.
Some data collections are free of charge (e.g. world-gazetteer.com) and some are priced (e.g. imdb.com licensing packages start at US$15000 / year).
Some grant you full access (e.g. you can download the whole MusicBrainz database) and for some you must use their API, with restricted queries per day (e.g. Amazon ECS).
Terms of use of such datasets will also be discussed.
Come to this workshop and you will get a quick overview of the data collections already available today for your commercial project!!
Some examples:
General: DBPedia (a structured version of Wikipedia), Freebase.org, Google Base
Geographical database: world-gazetteer.com, geonames.org (also worldwide zip codes with geo-coordinates), maxmind.com (location by IP, priced)
Trajectory data: transit data, people tracking
Public government and organizations: data.un.org, EDGAR db
TV guide (EPG): xmltv (free), tvtv.co.uk (priced)
Movie: imdb.com (priced), Allmovie.com (priced)
Music: MusicBrainz (free and priced), freedb.org (free), MuzeMusic (priced)
Products: Amazon ECS, icecat.biz (free and priced)
More: Flickr, weather.com, Project Gutenberg (free books, free), News, events (zvents.com, eventful.com, happenr.com), Transit data, Global Terrorism Database
Dictionaries and other lexical resources, Scientific databases (DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan), CiteSeer)
Collections of databases/APIs: swivel.com, Many Eyes, programmableweb, Wikipedia online-databases, Google Affiliate Network (only some partners offer data feeds)
Note: some public data collections, such as the CIA World Factbook, are available in a semi-structured web format, inadequate for querying or making statistics.
It is the case also for public store catalogs, such as supermarket chains (e.g. LeShop, Coop@Home, Lidl, Carrefour and Safeway).
We will very briefly explain how to extract data from this type of websites. If you are interested in this topic, you may want to attend this other workshop.
Come to this workshop and you will get a quick overview of the data collections already available today for your commercial project!!
DAvid Portabella <david.portabella@db4all.com>
DB4ALL.com
PS: If you are interested in a particular domain, or have questions concerning the licensing of a concrete database, do not hesitate to tell us prior to the workshop and we will investigate it.
If you have questions, comments or suggestions about this workshop, do not hesitate to contact us.
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Hello I can't see how I can register?
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