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一年一度的開源盛事 Conference for Open Source Coders,Users and Promoters, COSCUP 2011 即將在今年 8 月 20-21 日於中研院，台灣台北舉行喔！ 
 
今年的大會主題是「<a href="http://coscup.org/2011/zh-tw/program/">Gadgets beyond Smartphones!</a>」很期待能看到除了 Web 除了 Mobile 之外更多可以結合生活、融入生活的小玩意兒。（今天晚上在 GTUG 看到的 <a href="http://arduino.cc/">arduino</a> 也是不錯的小玩意兒。）今年規模預計會跟去年相當，期待近千人湧進供香盛舉（無誤 XD），哈！很期待 Coders, Users, Promoters 以及 Sponsors 都能藉由這次年會（大拜拜）的時間，彼此互動出更多火花，讓整個 open source world/eco-system 更加多元地發展 :-) 也期待改變大家對開發人員、對社群的固有印象，其實，我們是會出門（參加拜拜）的 XDD  科科！ 
 
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/dwchiang">Ernest</a> 繼去年參與 COSCUP/GNOME.Asia 2010 外交官事務後，今年繼續參與 COSCUP 2011 贊助銷售相關事務，整個 COSCUP 籌備團隊都是<a href="http://coscup.org/2011/zh-tw/about/">由各界志工所組成</a>。各位朋友，如果你們家認同 open source 理念、或是正在使用 open source 相關軟硬體、亦或是開發 open source 相關軟硬體，都很歡迎<a href="http://coscup.org/2011/zh-tw/sponsors/">贊助</a>或<a href="http://coscup.org/2011/zh-tw/program/">投稿</a> COSCUP 2011 喔！ 
 
更多關於 COSCUP 2011 的資訊，歡迎參考以下連結： 
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<li>COSCUP 2011 <a href="http://coscup.org/2011/">官方網站</a></li>
<li>洽詢贊助 - 寄信到 <a href="mailto:sponsorship@coscup.org">sponsorship@coscup.org</a> 洽詢</li>
<li><a href="http://coscup.org/2011/zh-tw/program/">講題投稿</a></li>
<li><a href="http://coscup.org/2011/zh-tw/about/">關於 COSCUP 開源人年會</a></li>
<li>見見我們的吉祥物「<a href="https://www.facebook.com/coscup">小啄</a>」at Facebook</li>
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COSCUP 2011 - We (heart) Open. 一年一度的開源盛事 Conference for Open Source Coders , Users and Promoters, COSCUP 2011 即將在今年 8 月 20-21...

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今天在看 Drupal 7 的 RDF，剛好就逛到幾個常聽到的 Open Data 單位，例如：英國政府、世界銀行，但今天的工作項目主要是在看 Drupal module development，所以就把這些資料源留到晚上來消化。 
 
世界銀行的開放資料放在 <a href="http://data.worldbank.org/">http://data.worldbank.org/</a> ，剛一頭栽進來的時候不知道要看些什麼，直覺先回想一下世界銀行的核心價值或業務是在做什麼的，然後往幾個主要的大 banner/campaign 點進去看看。先從 14 Apr 2011 這份「<a href="http://data.worldbank.org/news/WDI-2011-database-and-publication-available">World Development Indicators 2011 database and publication available now</a>」翻翻看，有什麼 open data 的東西可以玩。 
 
這是第 15 次出版的 World Development Indicators (WDI) ，主要更新了 2009 到 2010 的許多數據，整個 WDI 現在有<a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator">超過 1,200 種指標</a>。（例如：<a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL/countries?display=map">人口</a>，可以用<a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL/countries?display=default">表格</a>、<a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL/countries?display=map">地圖</a>、<a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL/countries?display=graph">圖表</a>等模式查詢）。此次的 WDI 2011 也強調了在免費地、開放資料的前提下，讓這些數字能夠發揮更多影響力，此舉有助於想使用這些資料、或利用其他各種新方式將這些資料做延伸使用的人們。 
 
這次的 WDI 2011 共提供了以下這些格式供使用： 
 
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: list-item; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">using the <a href="http://data.worldbank.org/country" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #587088; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country</a>, <a href="http://data.worldbank.org/topic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #587088; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Topic</a>, and <a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #587088; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Indicator</a> pages;</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: list-item; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">from the <a href="http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #587088; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">data catalog</a> by downloading Excel or CSV files or selecting data through<a href="http://databank.worldbank.org/ddp/home.do?Step=12&id=4&CNO=2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">DataBank</a>;</li>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: list-item; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">by using the <a href="http://data.worldbank.org/developers/api-overview" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #587088; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">API</a>;</li>
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如果想直接看重點整理，可以翻看這份 PDF 格式的<a href="http://data.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/wdi2011slideshow.pdf">投影片</a>。自從世界銀行從 2010 四月開始 open data 計畫之後，data.worldbank.org 已經有了  2000 萬的 pageviews，每週約有 10 萬名訪客造訪。 
 
對 API 有興趣的朋友，可以直接造訪介紹 <a href="http://data.worldbank.org/developers/api-overview">API 的文件說明</a>。現在透過 API 取用資料不需要經過 API key 的驗證程序，可以直接取用，傳回值格式會包成 JSON 或 XML 回來。可以安裝  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10869/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #587088; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">JSON View</a> Firefox plugin 可以更方便閱讀傳回值的 JSON 內容。例如：<a href="http://api.worldbank.org/countries/">http://api.worldbank.org/countries/</a> 可以看到國家清單，<a href="http://api.worldbank.org/countries/BR">http://api.worldbank.org/countries/BR</a> 可以查巴西國家簡易資料。（是的，沒有 Taiwan。） 
 
若不想自己刻，也有包好<a href="http://data.worldbank.org/developers/application-showcase">各種平台的模組</a>，例如：Drupal <a href="http://drupal.org/project/wbapi">WBAPI Project</a>、Google 的 <a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/overview?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_">Public Data Explorer</a>。應該這些工具對於做研究或統計等領域的人們會有些用處 :) 
 
延伸的想法：如果「廣告」也能和 open data 合起來一起想，會是什麼樣的延伸呢？

世界發展指標 WDI 2011 資料庫與出版品

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