UK Government launches mash-up contest

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Source, Kablenet: 2 July 2008 The Cabinet Office has set up a competition for people to develop their own mash-ups from public sector information http://www.kablenet.com/kd.nsf/FrontpageRSS/FDCD0543BB7EB0228025747A003E8695!OpenDocument

The competition, the idea for which emerged from early discussions of the Power of Information Taskforce, has involved the release of government information not previously available.

Entrants can combine the data with their own material to create information tailored to specific groups or needs. Details are available on the taskforce's Show Us A Better Way website.

References:

http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/ http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/2008/07/your-150-ideas.html

See also a very interesting US paper

Gov. Data and the Invisible Hand by David Robinson , Harlan Yu, William Zeller and Edward W. Felten

Paper download  at 

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1138083#PaperDownload

A final version of this essay will appear in Volume 11 of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology in Fall 2008.

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In technology, a mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool; an example is the use of cartographic data from Google Maps to add location information to real-estate data, thereby creating a new and distinct web service that was not originally provided by either source.

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Mashup (web application hybrid)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In technology, a mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool; an example is the use of cartographic data from Google Maps to add location information to real-estate data, thereby creating a new and distinct web service that was not originally provided by either source.

Mashup originally referred to the practice in pop music (notably hip-hop) of producing a new song by mixing two or more existing pieces together.