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Obama Administration Advances Open Data Policy

Source: Information Today

by Peggy Garvin Posted On May 16, 2013 The White House made major information policy last week, issuing an Executive Order and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum that established “open and machine readable” as t ...
Full article at: Information Today  More like this  2 days ago, 9:26am CDT

Measuring Linux By the VAR Metric

Source: LXer

I don’t think the unnamed and unknown blogger who writes under the banner of The VAR Guy would argue with me if I were to say that over at his site it’s all about the money. That’s not a bad thing. The value added resellers, th ...
Full article at: LXer  More like this  2 days ago, 5:44am CDT

Federal Requirement for Open Access: Seeing What You Paid for

Source: CIO.com

This new order continues a process the President started on his first day in office with a memorandum to executive departments and agencies that stated an official openness policy for his administration. (An observa ...
Full article at: CIO.com  More like this  3 days ago, 3:14pm CDT

Obama issues Executive Order in support of open data

Source: Creative Commons Blog

Yesterday President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order requiring federal government information to be open and machine-readable by default. This Order is the latest in a series of actions going back to 2009 in support of inc ...
Full article at: Creative Commons Blog  More like this  May 10 2013, 11:22am CDT

There Is More To The US Open Data Policy Than Meets The Eyes

Source: Andrea Dimaio, Gartner

As one reads the order, browses through the first few pages of the policy or watches the short video that CIO Steve Van Roekel and CTO Todd Park released to explain the policy, the first impression is that this is just ...
Full article at: Andrea Dimaio, Gartner  More like this  May 10 2013, 4:49am CDT

President Obama signs executive order requiring agencies to publish 'open data'

Source: The Verge

President Obama came into office 2009 with a promise to make his administration the most "open" in history in terms of revealing information to the public about the inner-workings of government, a claim that has bee ...
Full article at: The Verge  More like this  May 9 2013, 5:46pm CDT

White House Open Data Policy: Promoting Openness and Interoperability

Source: Software & Information Industry Association

The U.S. Federal Government, state and local governments, and governments around the world possess treasure troves of valuable data that have gone largely untapped for many years. More than ever before, cit ...
Full article at: Software & Information Industry Association  More like this  May 9 2013, 2:47pm CDT

White House Rolls Out New Rules to Open Up Government Data

Source: Library Stuff

“The White House on Thursday introduced new rules that seek to make government data more open and accessible to researchers and the public, through an executive order signed by President Obama and an open-data poli ...
Full article at: Library Stuff  More like this  May 9 2013, 2:35pm CDT

Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies

Source: Hacker News

Information is a valuable national resource and a strategic asset to the Federal Government, its partners, and the public. In order to ensure that the Federal Government is taking full advantage of its information resources, execut ...
Full article at: Hacker News  More like this  May 9 2013, 1:20pm CDT

White House releases open-data policy for agencies

Source: Washington Business Journal

TechFlash delivers technology news and trends from your city and beyond. The White House is mandating open data and has released new open source data tools. Agencies will have to make sure all appropriate data are released to the pub ...
Full article at: Washington Business Journal  More like this  May 9 2013, 12:37pm CDT


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