1. Craft Matters? Craft Mattersexploring the Craft Matters responses Becky StewartQueen Mary, University of Londonrebecca.stewart@eecs.qmul.ac.uk

2. what I did 3. craftmatters.org.uk 4. craftmatters.org.uk 5. how I did it 6. 1. Parse excel le and process the data Python xlrd and nltk 7. 1. Parse excel le and process the data Python xlrd and nltk2. Create a webpage with a randomly selected quote CherryPy serves automatically generated HTML 8. 1. Parse excel le and process the data Python xlrd and nltk2. Create a webpage with a randomly selected quote CherryPy serves automatically generated HTML3. User clicks on a word4. Find and display another quote with that same word(if one exists) 9. how can data providers helpdevelopers make better projects? 10. Tim Berners-Lee 5 Starsmake your stuff available on the web (whatever format)make it available as structured data (e.g. excel insteadof scan of table)non-proprietary format (e.g. csv instead of excel)use URLs to identify things, so that people can point atyour stufflink your data to other peoples data so you can providecontext 11. make an API 12. make an APIdevelopers dont need to download a bunch ofdata - developers can access it when they needit 13. make an APIdevelopers dont need to download a bunch ofdata - developers can access it when they needityou have better control over what happens withyour data, it stays on your server and notoating around as a zip le 14. Thank yourebecca.stewart@eecs.qmul.ac.uk http://blog.theleadingzero.com