UK Government Debuts Data Website

Tim Berners-lee, the man widely credited with creating the worldwide web, has teamed up with the UK government to launch a new website called data.gov.uk which contains a slew of public sector data sets to be used for private and commercial ventures. The project was initiated in June 2009 and aims at encouraging the development of public data mashups. It is expected to spawn a number of services that could revolutionise access and readability of public data. The site is...