Seagate’s 2 TB 7200rpm ST2000DM001 3.5" SATA spinning-rust disk (8.5ms seek, 8 watts operating) costs US$67.87 or US$79.92 with shipping. i.e. US$40 per terabyte. Living in the fucking future. What do we do with this?
#datasets about #Wikipedia, on the Open Knowledge Foundation.
#datasets from #Freebase
Current status of the replication of the Internet Archive #datasets using IABAK, using git-annex. At this point they have 39.98 terabytes backed up. Out of 21000.
#ebook archives of the NIST’s (previously NBS’s or just Bureau of Standards’s) Journal of Research, largely about #metrology. 6949 etexts in all, from 1928 to 2010.
“This is a collection of Google Groups postings and files, pulled from the rapidly burning Google Groups archives by Archive Team to ensure longevity of the data.”
#ebook scans. A lot of this is historical material.
26,000+ #ebook scans from NASA technical documents from 1905 up to 2010. This is the real, fairly comprehensive, primary-source story of the Space Age and, implicitly, the Cold War.
3,370 #ebook #paper scans from the JSTOR Political Science Quarterly journal that are now in the public domain because they were published before 1923.
94 #ebook incunables from Mexican presses in the 1500s.
a structured data dataset (#datasets?) for use in Wikipedia etc.
USDA nutritional information #datasets formatted for MySQL/MariaDB.
Reddit Submission Corpus torrent #datasets
Reddit Comments Corpus torrent #datasets
Kalev Leetaru has uploaded 2.6 million public-domain images from the Internet Archive book scans to Flickr out of 12 million total that he has extracted.
Downloadable World Bank #datasets, in this case the Gini coefficient.
The story of Variety Jones, the #Silk-Road hacker.
Reddit published monthly comment #datasets apparently?
The Reddit post about Reddit Submission Corpus #datasets