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þ Data, info, and more from the NY Times http://data.nytimes.com/ For the last 150 years, The New York Times has maintained one of the most authoritative news vocabularies ever developed. In 2009, we began to publish this vocabulary as linked open data. I looked up Kansas and found terrific material of the "invisible web" sort.