I just attended, as an invited participant, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities’ API Workshop, which was held on February 25th and 26th. The workshop alternated between presentations, lightning talks, and what the organizers called ‘unconferencing’. The highlights for me were the talks given by Mano Marks on Google’s MAP API, Google’s Fusion Table, and Google Refine. I’ve spent more time than I care to remember cleaning up language data. For example, I spent weeks cleaning up a Guarani lexicon. Google Refine is a tool that helps automate that process. If I used that for the Guarani lexicon I would have been done in a day! Google Fusion Table is an amazingly easy way to create map mashups just using a spreadsheet. The maps you create can be embedded on your web page.