Tim Berners-Lee is a pretty accomplished guy.
When you're the director of the W3C, you're probably in a pretty good spot to think about the future of the internet. In a talk he recently gave at MIT, Mr. Berners-Lee predicted:
"[In the future], people browsing the web won’t just be sitting there browsing it[...] instead, if databases are made open and available, [people will] run programs that will automatically seek out and find useful information."Source: MHT January 11, 2010
UWData.ca is a step in that direction.
The goal is to provide a consistent API upon which students can build the next generation of university student tools. Gone are the screen scrapers prone to breaking at the slightest change to the University's websites. Welcome the new age of public data access and standardized sources of information.
Project Profile
General
- Time spent
- January 15th-18th, 2010
- Team
- Jeff Verkoeyen
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