Hi all,

Two cool big-data approaches to organizing information and collections launched today:

The Digital Public Library of America -- the DPLA aims to be a common platform for the nation's special collections. 
http://dp.la

Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation, BISON -- This is an effort from USGS to map species records across the US ("offering more than 100 million mapped records of nearly every living species nationwide and growing. And the vast majority of the records are specific locations, not just county or state records.")
http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov 

-- Phoebe