Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
The Wolfram Data Drop is an open service that makes it easy to accumulate data of any kind, from anywhere—setting it up for immediate computation, visualization, analysis, querying, or other operations.
The Wolfram Data Drop uses WDF (Wolfram Data Framework) to add semantics to data and make it computable.
Collections and time series of computable data are stored in named databins in the Wolfram Cloud and are instantly
accessible from all Wolfram Language and other systems. Quick Reference
Any Kind of Data—Complete with Semantics
Through WDF (Wolfram Data Framework), the Wolfram Data Drop can handle—and make semantic—any
kind of data.
Numbers Measured Quantities Times Geolocations Entities Text Images…
400+ data types and 6,500+ measured quantities with automatic linguistics & format conversion
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COMPLETE DATA SEMANTICS
WDF defines semantics for all types of data—leveraging the Wolfram Knowledgebase used for Wolfram|Alpha.
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IF THERE'S A UNIT, WE KNOW IT
WDF has the world's broadest coverage of units of measure and related constructs.
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CANONICAL ENTITIES FOR EVERYTHING
Cities, species, chemicals, movies: all have associated canonical entities in WDF.
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AUTOMATIC LINGUISTICS & CANONICALIZATION
The Wolfram Natural Language Understanding System interprets free-form input in terms of canonical semantic forms.
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NUMERICAL PRECISION PROPERLY HANDLED
WDF supports full tagging and tracking of numerical precision.
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SYMBOLIC MISSING DATA
Missing data is seamlessly handled in Data Drop time series.
Instant Access to Powerful Analysis
The Wolfram Data Drop is set up to allow instant analysis using the full power of the Wolfram Language.
Typical Uses
The Wolfram Data Drop is a core enabling technology with a wide range of applications.
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SET UP WEB DASHBOARDS
Do analyses and create visualizations continuously from Data Drop data.
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GENERATE AUTOMATED REPORTS
Periodically generate rich reports from Data Drop data.
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AGGREGATE DATA FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES
Use WDF canonicalization and the Wolfram Cloud to combine disparate Data Drop data.
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ACCESS DATA FROM ANY LANGUAGE
Automatically generate code to access Data Drop data from any common computer language.
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INSTANT DATA PUBLISHING
Make data immediately available through Data Drop.
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GENERATE ALERTS
Define any criterion to generate email or other alerts from Data Drop data.
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CREATE A WEB QUERY API
Make it easy to query Data Drop data from any web system.
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NATURAL LANGUAGE DATA QUERIES
Set up a system to answer natural language queries using Data Drop data.
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DATA COLLABORATION AND CROWDSOURCING
Accumulate data from many contributors in the Data Drop.
Typical Users
With its rich deployment and interfaces, the Wolfram Data Drop fits perfectly with many different types of users.
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DEVICE MANUFACTURERS
Turn device data into dashboards, reports, alerts analytics, etc. in the cloud.
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ENGINEERS
Monitor your systems with instant analysis.
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MAKERS
Provide back-end data power for your projects.
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SURVEY TAKERS
Uniformly accumulate numerical, textual, image GIS, etc. data.
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DATA PUBLISHERS
Conveniently make rich data instantly available to everyone.
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS
Instrument your systems to generate dashboards, reports, alerts, analytics, etc.
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EXPERIMENTAL SCIENTISTS
Set up a uniform destination for all the data you're measuring.
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EDUCATORS
Accumulate data from your students, and show instant
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PERSONAL ANALYTICS PIONEERS
Get the ultimate way to quantify yourself using all forms of data.