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Is there a way to programmatically access the structure of curated data present in Mathematica (for each type of information, for example for CountryData or ChemicalData) that would allow access to any kind of available information ? This would also allow the possibility to build generic graphical interfaces for accessing the data.

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I sort of remember reading a while ago (I think when Alpha was launched) that there might be a public API made one day to access this data directly from WRI servers. I do not remember now where I read that, or seen it. I did now some googling, and can't find it. So, for now, to access the data, I think the only way is to use Mathematica functions as explained here reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/… – Nasser Dec 1 '12 at 11:12

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This howto illustrates how to use curated data:
http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/howto/UseCuratedData.html

Basically the general structure of curated data seems to be Classes>Entities>Properties.

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