"to collect as much data on the U.S. government as I could, convert it to RDF, and build a site and a web service that make it possible to explore that data"
The New York Times: Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use
"The Web sites of Senator John Kerry and the Democratic National Committee run mainly on the technology of the computing counterculture: open-source software that is distributed free, and improved and debugged by far-flung networks of programmers."