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Show HN: Creative Commons Lists for Dev Projects (Alpha)

3 pointsby lefnireabout 9 years ago

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lefnireabout 9 years ago
Functional proof-of-concept; I wanted to gauge developer interest before getting too deep.<p>A project for building lists of things to be used in developer projects (Creative Commons). Think of those times you need data: locations (countries to cities), professional industries and their skills, insurance companies and their plans, etc. Sourcing these data across the internet lands you gobs of CSVs &amp; XLSXs; JSON, SOAP, XML APIs (some costing an arm and a leg!); copy-pasta from Wikipedia... it&#x27;s horrible. They&#x27;re data in the public domain, c&#x27;mon.<p>With CC-Taxonomy, anyone can add a list (say &quot;JavaScript Frameworks&quot; and children). The community can add items, vote on items (aka relevant &#x2F; appropriate), comment, and suggest edits. Most importantly, at any time you can download any list&#x27;s latest in various formats (JSON implemented, CSV &amp; YAML pending).<p>If it&#x27;s something you&#x27;re interested in, make an appearance - it&#x27;s open source, and could use help! Also, the name is bad :) Suggestions?