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Startup Idea #2 - Digitizing the Public Domain
With all the raw data that's available in the public domain, there should be more / better ways to access the information. My friend Sebastian expressed his frustration with current options, "When I was writing a research paper where I had to do 'methodological statistical analysis' on big batches of government data I literally had to manually scrape data off of the pages of these sites."
Hours and hours and hours of grunt work -- exactly the type of work that the digital revolution is supposed to get rid of.
So why hasn't a company come out with a service-quality at the level of Omniture's SiteCatalyst, except for analyzing government data. There's certainly a market for it.
Sell it to every congressional office, every think tank in Washington, D.C., and every major university in America. Have each think tank or congressional office or university pay you $1000 a month for the service. If it was good enough and easy enough, they'd pay.
Number crunchers and analysts would love to have the point-and-click simplicity that professional services like Omniture have brought to Web Analytics. And certainly we the people could take advantage of a more transparent government which would will come only if we can see behind the Wizard of Oz's magic curtain. Technology will help us to do that, and I'd like to see more innovation in this space.
Disclaimer: This is Sebastian's idea, I just ran with it and added a few things (not like this idea hasn't been passed around before, but hey; give credit where credit is due).
