{"id":79,"date":"2011-12-22T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2011-12-22T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T20:13:00","slug":"french-open-data-and-historic-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/french-open-data-and-historic-monuments\/","title":{"rendered":"French open data and historic monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back I had this idea I&#8217;d keep up with library blogs in French (and another couple of languages I was semi-competent at, at least with the help of <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/\">Google Translate<\/a>) and feed back the occasional roundup of interesting stuff into the anglophone world.  I <a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/non-English\">did it a bit<\/a>, then ran out of steam, then the rss feeds I followed got out of date so nowadays I&#8217;ve no idea where the really interesting conversations are happening.<\/p>\n<p>But I still see the occasional tidbit, such as (via <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliotheque20.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/06\/opendata-data-gouv-fr-data-bnf-fr\/\">Des Biblioth\u00e8ques 2.0<\/a>) the launch of the official French Open Data website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.data.gouv.fr\/\">data.gouv.fr<\/a>.  (A nice touch is that down the bottom of the page they link to Open Data initiatives in a bunch of other countries too.)<\/p>\n<p>And even more cool, (via <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliotheque20.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/21\/les-promesses-de-lopendata-une-realisation-exemplaire-pour-la-culture\/\">the same<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.antidot.net\/demo\/monuments\">Monuments historiques<\/a>, a mashup of data from data.gouv.fr, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/\">OpenStreetMap<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rdf.insee.fr\/geo\/\">INSEE<\/a>, Wikipedia and <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.dbpedia.org\/Datasets\">DBpedia<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo!<\/a> (see <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.antidot.net\/2011\/12\/19\/decouvrez-les-monuments-historiques-grace-a-lopen-data\/\">more on the sources and process<\/a>) which lets you search or browse for nearly 44,000 monuments in France by type, historic period, region, Metro stop&#8230; and gives you data, description, and images about each monument in a really pretty interface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back I had this idea I&#8217;d keep up with library blogs in French (and another couple of languages I was semi-competent at, at least with the help of Google Translate) and feed back the occasional roundup of interesting stuff into the anglophone world. I did it a bit, then ran out of steam, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[91,90,4,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}