Your peers in the Open Data developer community tell us that working with Government Data is challenging. Too often, you have to screen-scrape data from websites. When data is actually available for download, you have to transform the source data into a usable format, and then you have to keep it up-to-date. Not fun! What you want is immediate and uniform programmatic access to a growing pool of rich and automatically-updated government datasets. You also want helpful resources to get you started and a commitment to Open Standards.
Socrata is pleased to offer you:
The Socrata Open Data API (SODA), the Socrata Developer Site, a creative Commons license for the API specifications and a growing library of code samples on Github.
