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Happy Sunshine Week! Congressional Data Coalition, open data, and public records
Happy Sunshine Week 2014! This is the week every year when open government activists and organizations, journalists, libraries, teachers and others interested in the public’s right to know promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information and [[FOIA]]. Check out the Sunshine Week events happening all this week! As a […]
GISIG: NARA launches Open Data Portal
via LIS-GISIG blog (gov-info.tumblr.com) They’re looking for suggestions; there are many ways to participate! via Doug Ward in National Archives (NARA) Information Services and Meredith Stewart in the NARA Office of Innovation. The Open Data Policy seeks to expand the number of government data assets that are open and available to the public. Those data […]
PLOS’ New Data Policy: Public Access to Data
Today the Public Library of Science (PLOS) revised its already-strong data policy. As of March 3, 2014, authors in all PLOS journals will be required to provide a Data Availability Statement. Additionally, all underlying data must be publicly available in 1 of 3 places: the body of the manuscript, in the supporting information, or in […]
GISIG: Cabinet agencies release full inventory lists of their public data
Happy Open Data Day indeed! Sunlight Foundation Blog, via GISIG Just in time for Open Data Day, your Uncle Sam — aided and abetted by developers here at Sunlight — is giving you a present. It has taken weeks, but it appears that all Cabinet agencies have released complete machine-readable lists of their public data holdings, in […]
How Government Data Is Fueling a New Economy
NextGov, the online technology newsletter from the same media company that publishes The Atlantic magazine and National Journal, is launching a new project to profile companies and nonprofits that are building their businesses with government data. The first two companies are Panjiva, which pays to get U.S. customs data overnighted on CD-ROMs because the data […]
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