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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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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