Digging Digitally posts on Freebase, a free online community-based database creator (proprietary software). From the FAQ:
“Freebase is a uniquely structured database that you can easily search, add to and edit; you can also use the data in it to power your own projects. It’s a data commons in the way that a public square is a land commons—available to anyone to use.”
In addition to the basic online database interface, Freebase comes with an API to let you create your own applications. The ArchiPortal (an “Architecture GIS Portal”) shows how Freebase can be used to generate a database linked to a Google Maps view.
OpenContext is an open-source project with similar (but not identical) aims.
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