Regular readers will know I quite often make use of Scraperwiki for grabbing datasets and hosting views over scraped scraped data. A few days ago, I contributed a guest post to the Scraperwiki blog:
As well as being a great tool for scraping and aggregating content from third party sites, Scraperwiki can be used as a transformational “glue logic” tool: joining together applications that utilise otherwise incompatible data formats. Typically, we might think of using a scraper to pull data into one or more Scraperwiki database tables and then a view to develop an application style view over the data. Alternatively, we might just download the data so that we can analyse it elsewhere. There is another way of using Scraperwiki, though, and that is to give life to data as flowable web data.
Read the whole thing here: Glue Logic and Flowable Data.
PS I hope to write more about “flowable data”, feeds, and feed enrichment in a later post here on OUseful.info.
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