From SF Data Wiki

Open 311 initiatives and API

• Data.gov of Vivek Kundra
• San Francisco: http://datasf.org and related meeting
• New York: http://participationcamp.org and Legistlation
• DC: http://api.dc.gov/
• City of Porland, OR: ?
• SCF Open 311 API Draft and Blog
• Open 311 discussions
• Unifying API - Data Dot Gov Feedback Forum
• Sunlight Labs: About the National Data Catalog API | API Details

Organizations

• Sunlight Foundation
• See Click Fix (blog | widget) - mobile phone and web tool that allows citizens to report and document non-emergency issues to communicate them to those accountable for the public space
• Fix My Street UK
• Open Gov NYC (google group)
• Apps for Democracy (google group)
• SFSM San Francisco Survival Manual Government Tranparency Project
• Californians Aware: The Center for Public Forum Rights (website I blog)

Semantic Data

• Linked Data Design issues: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
• Putting Government Data online – Tim Berners-Lee
  http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/GovData.html
• Tim Berners-Lee: Presentation on TED
  http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html

Data Visualization

• http://tables.googlelabs.com/
• http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/
• http://www.swivel.com/
• http://www.gapminder.org/

Geo mapping

• http://maps.google.com/
• http://maps.yahoo.com/
• http://www.mapquest.com/
• http://www.earthmine.com/ - 3D

Open

• http://www.openstreetmap.org/
• http://tiger.census.gov/

Data Oriented Source Code

• OpenlyLocal.com (github)
• EveryBlock Code (github)
• Sunlight National Data Catalog Code (pivotal tracker)

Applications

CitySourced - mobile civic engagement tool - aimed at empowering citizens to use their smartphones to identify things such as potholes, graffiti, rubbish, snow removal and so on. (BBC article)

Articles

• 8 principles of Open Government Data
• Twitter search: #opendata
• Twitter search: #gov20
• Twitter search: #opengov
• David Eaves (who is spearheading Vancouver's open data movement) writes about why open data makes garbage collection sexy. Oh yeah! (Was picked up by O'Reilly Radar on Friday, July 3)
• Article Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data, Open Vancouver
• NYC Legislation on Open Data
  
• Open Municipal Geo-Data Catalog Road-map (OMGDCR)
• Jerry Mechling: Democratizing Data
• Princeton paper "Government Data and the Invisible Hand" - Researchers to government: Stop building Web sites, and just hand over your data.
• Terry Francke: A Call For California To Lead the Way on Smart Transparency

List of existing data catalogs:

• http://www.data.gov/
• http://data.octo.dc.gov/
• http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/opengovdata/ (free and open source – built on .Net and requires MS Azure)
• http://www.socrata.com/ - not open source: requires usage cost similar to cloud computing
• Sunlight Labs - Congress
• Portland's transit authority app centre
• List from Eaves (Vancouver)

Other

• Sunlight Foundation Data catalog design
• Google Fusion Tables - Data storage and visualization
• NY Times open API
• NYC Open Data Legislation