Prototype: Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú + Data.gov.uk mashup
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| 17:41 UK time, Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Our friends at Rewired State, recently had a hackday where which,
Publishes links to relevant data.gov.uk datasets next to news articles on the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú website. Provides important context for those articles and increased visibility for the datasets. Implemented as a simple greasemonkey Firefox script connecting to a simple search service built with Google's ajax search api.Not content with that Ben's already thinking about packaged it as a firefox toolbar rather than a greasemonkey plug-in. Moving away from reliant on google's search apis. and of course, if it supported more websites. There's also a potential to add crowd-sourced citations too.
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