on the one hand Google has compiled a database of all U.S books published between 1923 and 1963 that have lost copyright protection due to not being renewed which is wonderful, and on the other hand they have made it available as a 371 MB XML file which is not so wonderful, because hey 371 MB XML file!!
Results tagged “open data” from O'Reilly News
The reason why I think data that should be freely available is the largest set of
Government data is that many of the forms of this data can bind to everything, for
example location data is often held by the government and just about everything real has
location. Time data is often held by government archives, and the data goes back lots
longer than the data that must be maintained secretly.



