ScrapeOpen is a collaborative project. It curates the publication of code to scrape websites serving public data sets and presents them in a format accessible to humans and machines.

What's a public data set

A public data set is a collection of observations published by a public agency (not-for-profit) and having public value. In order to be published, the data set must not be proprietary.

What's an accessible format

Data sets published by ScrapeOpen project have 3 stars in the 5-star Open Data plan:

★	make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format) under an open license
★★	make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table)
★★★	make it available in a non-proprietary open format (e.g., CSV instead of Excel)
★★★★	use URIs to denote things, so that people can point at your stuff
★★★★★	link your data to other data to provide context

That is, every data set is

• structured, with metadata defining every attribute of each observations,
• and published in a non proprietary format.

Possibly, entities described in the data sets (e.g. people, places) are also linked to other data.

How you can help

• Indicate interesting websites
• Write or maintain the code to scrape a resource
• Control or improve the quality of the data sets

If you want to contribute, please have a look at the project documentation.