States urged to create data catalogs, by Joab Jackson, Federal Computer Week (Oct 07, 2009).
Federal agencies shouldn’t be the only ones to open their data for the public — states and local governments should also be ramping up efforts to become more transparent, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) contends in a newly published report.
The first thing a state should do is create a one-stop portal, or data catalog, for all its publicly-accessible data, along the lines of the White House’s Data.Gov , the report states.
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