The website describes traditional screen scraping and then says:
ScraperWiki is an online tool to make that process simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor, and the code and data are shared with the world. Because it’s a wiki, other programmers can contribute to and improve the code. And, if you’re not a programmer yourself, you can request a scraper or ask the ScraperWiki team to write one for you.
Interesting way to promote the transition to accessible and structured data.
One step closer to incorporation into or being viewed by a topic map!
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