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Akara is a platform for developing data services available on the Web, using REST architecture. Akara is open source software written in Python and C.

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    Akara provides the data pipeline for Zepheira's Freemix and for The Library of Congress's Recollection project. The Reference Extract project, a collaboration of The MacArthur Foundation, OCLC, and Zepheira, uses Akara to process information about topics and related Web pages to provide measures of page credibility. Cleveland Clinic used Akara as a platform for processing patient data records. Akara provided pluggable content service modules for the Knowledge Discovery System at Elsevier. Sun Microsystems used Akara as a component in its global content delivery network.

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    A screencast demonstrating data augmentation applied to mapping through the US Library of Congress Recollection platform, powered by Akara

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    This community presentation for Python developers describes Akara and shows off its features.

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    Akara can transform common patterns for listkeeping into individual, component items as shown in this screencast for Recollection.

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