New Labor app, API open massive data library on child labor

"The Labor Department released two new ways for the public to use open data in the fight against child and forced labor Tuesday. The Sweat & Toil app, released by the department’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs, takes thousands of pages of data from three reports — 'Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor;' 'List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor' and 'List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor' — and reduces it to a database that can be searched on a mobile device. App users can review international laws or efforts to eliminate child labor, browse what goods have been produced with child or forced labor, and comb through other assorted child labor data. The Labor Department also released an API which taps into the bureau’s data library on child and forced labor, giving developers and data scientists the chance to integrate the data into their own research ..."