[Visinfo] Syllabus, project info, links to web services apis

[Angus Forbes]

Hi everyone,

The newest syllabus is up, including links to various resources and
information about the first project:

http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/academic/courses/06w259/06w259.html

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Google APIs :
http://www.google.com/apis/
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/

Amazon web services pages, including the Alexa search engine web services:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=sc_fe_l_1/002-7806574-9196022?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=3435361&no=3435361&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA

Yahoo APIs, including Flickr, yahoo maps, yahoo search engine, del.icio.us, etc
http://developer.yahoo.net/

Microsoft's MapPoint:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/MapPoint/

ESV Bible:
http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/share/services/

There are many more out there, If anyone is interested in using web
service APIs to gather a dataset, I can help with the REST or SOAP
protocols. One interesting idea is to use a "mashup" of different data
using various web services APIs. For instance, for the NGDA project I
am using Google Maps API in conjunction with the ADL map & air
photography api & their gazetteer data
.
Also, there is a project called Piggybank
(http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/) that helps you write screen
scrapers for websites that don't expose a programmatic way to access
their data.

-Angus