The goal of our community is to develop a free, open source platform to help improve public access to raw government data in machine readable formats. Imagine getting help on choosing your next home by viewing crime data and school stats on a map. Or seeing restaurant ratings and violations based on your GPS location. All of this takes government data. CivicDB helps government organizations liberate data in multiple open formats like CSV, XML, RESTful web services by providing a full end-to-end solution. CivicDB allows data consumers like journalists and developers the ability to explore, find and download datasets; giving your community what it needs to create applications that make your neighborhood a better place to live.

more info - http://www.civicdb.org/