On 4/20/07, Richard Wallis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Just talking about it will help, and there seems to be much more of > that going on now. Open conversation and open thought may well be a > precursor to open data - we can all hope. Well said :-) One project that didn't get mentioned and I only stumbled on somehow (probably because I don't subscribe to the right feeds or discussion lists) is Simon Spero's project Fred 2.0. http://www.ibiblio.org/fred2.0/ There's a pdf in that directory that describes what he's done--but he's essentially pulled down all the LoC Authority data and made it publicly available. //Ed