U.S. Federal Government Open Data Policy Coming November 23rd
From FierceGovernmentIT:
Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel will release a governmentwide open data policy on Nov. 23, he said Oct. 11 while speaking at the World Government Summit on Open Source in Washington, D.C.
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As part of the policy, Data.gov will become the central repository to access all live data at agencies, he said.
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He added that these updates to Data.gov will provide a lightweight way to obtain analytics and crawl agency websites to pull all data into the system.
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See Also: On a Related Note, Tim O’Reilly Delivered a Keynote Presentation at the Conference
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