[Bug-gnupedia] What about an Almanac, too?

[John Goodwin]

"Encyclopedia" is one model among many.  I personally would find an
aggregation of data along the lines of the World Almanac quite useful.
Most of this sort of information is available in a hodge-podge fashion
on the web, but hard to find.

To put a different spin on it, most of the tabular information could be
presented as
"data scripts" in a functional or predicate-oriented language like
Scheme or Prolog:

postalcode('mycity',12345).
state-of('mycity','XY').
conversion-factor('oz','gr',28.8).

It would be nice to cut and paste such well-known information as "all
the zip codes for towns in Wyoming" into my program.

BTW, I expect to find a lot of this kind of information in an
"encyclopedia" too.