Open Data Challenge

http://opendatachallenge.org/

This is not exactly Topic Map stuff but an interesting opportunity to 
show what Topic Maps can do. From the web site:

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European public bodies produce thousands upon thousands of datasets 
every year - about everything from how our tax money is spent to the 
quality of the air we breathe.

We are challenging designers, developers, journalists, researchers and 
others to people to come up with something useful, valuable or 
interesting for European citizens, built using open data.

There are four main strands to the competition:
# Ideas – Anyone can suggest an idea for projects which reuse public 
information to do something interesting or useful.
# Apps – Teams of developers can submit working applications which reuse 
public information.
# Visualisations – Designers, artists and others can submit interesting 
or insightful visual representations of public information.
# Datasets - Public bodies can submit newly opened up datasets, or 
developers can submit derived datasets which they've cleaned up, or 
linked together

The competition is open for 60 days - from 5th April until 5th June 
midnight. The winners will be selected by an all star cast of open data 
gurus - and announced in mid June at the European Digital Assembly in 
Brussels.

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Kind Regards,
Aki / Wandora Team