“CKAN is a registry of open data and content packages. CKAN makes it easy to find, share and reuse open content and data, especially in ways that are machine automatable.” > http://ckan.net/

“Where to Find Open Data on the Web” » http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/where_to_find_open_data_on_the.php

earthquakes http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/rss.html

sukcspit sources ?

http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/

http://www.datawrangling.com/some-datasets-available-on-the-web

http://research.freebase.com/

http://infochimps.org/

http://dbpedia.org/About

http://www.nber.org/data/

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/DATASTATISTICS/0,,menuPK:232599~pagePK:64133170~piPK:64133498~theSitePK:239419,00.html

http://www.dbis.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/Mondial/

http://www.who.int/whosis/en/

http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData

http://delicious.com/pskomoroch/dataset

http://download.freebase.com/wex/

http://www.opentick.com/

http://www.maxmind.com/app/worldcities

see climate data

Historical FX Rates: http://oanda.com/convert/fxhistory

Historical Stock Prices: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=yhoo , http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/

Recent LIBOR rates: http://www.bba.org.uk/public/libor/

Some Implied Volatilities: http://www.ivolatility.com

Commodities: http://www.liffe-commodities.com/

Euronext: http://www.bourse-de-paris.fr/en/index_fs.htm?nc=2∋=11&nom=marche

US Fundamentals: http://www.sec.gov , http://www.census.gov , http://www.bls.gov , http://www.federalreserve.gov , http://www.ssa.gov , http://www.treasury.gov

UK http://www.statistics.gov.uk

Extensive Data Series: http://www.economagic.com/

Currency Data: http://www.oanda.com/convert/fxhistory

Options Data: http://www.ivolatility.com/ , http://www.optionomics.com/HistoricalDB.html , http://www.maoxian.com/memoranda/putcall.html

Nightly Intraday Futures Data: http://www.simiansavants.com/cmedata.shtml

http://www.traders2traders.com/linkindex/default.asp

“Google Finance offers a variety of ways to access data programmatically” http://code.google.com/apis/finance/

http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/data-scraping-wikipedia-with-google-spreadsheets/

Genetic Data

ships in the north sea » http://www.shipais.com/currentmap.php?map=NorthSea