Functional proof-of-concept; I wanted to gauge developer interest before getting too deep.

A project for building lists of things to be used in developer projects (Creative Commons). Think of those times you need data: locations (countries to cities), professional industries and their skills, insurance companies and their plans, etc. Sourcing these data across the internet lands you gobs of CSVs & XLSXs; JSON, SOAP, XML APIs (some costing an arm and a leg!); copy-pasta from Wikipedia... it's horrible. They're data in the public domain, c'mon.

With CC-Taxonomy, anyone can add a list (say "JavaScript Frameworks" and children). The community can add items, vote on items (aka relevant / appropriate), comment, and suggest edits. Most importantly, at any time you can download any list's latest in various formats (JSON implemented, CSV & YAML pending).

If it's something you're interested in, make an appearance - it's open source, and could use help! Also, the name is bad :) Suggestions?