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Factual wants to be the center of the web’s open data

Source: VentureBeat

Oct 13, 2009

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The team behind Factual, a website that’s launching its beta test today, has an ambitious goal — to become the central location where people share, find, and mash-up data.

Founder Gil Elbaz points to sites like the Open Directory Project and MusicBrainz, as promising examples of how to share and collaborate on data about the web and music, respectively, and there are other examples, particularly around government data. But Elbaz says he wants Factual to be more comprehensive, in the way that way Sourceforge has become the primary repository for open source programming code. Elbaz wants his Los Angeles startup to be the repository for pretty much every data set you can think of, whether it’s about endocrinologists, video games, or California restaurants.

The data sets are stored as tables which can be viewed and edited on Factual, and also embedded on other websites. The site has hundreds of thousands of tables right now, Elbaz says. For example, I’ve embedded the table of popular books for the last 20 years below. If you see something wrong in the table, go ahe

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