[OKFN-CH] US Senat verabschiedet Open Government Data Gesetz

[André Golliez]

Liebe Open Data Community

Doch, es kommen auch gute Nachrichten aus den USA - hier ist eine: der US Senat hat soeben ein Open Government Data Gesetz (Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act<https://www.datacoalition.org/open-government-data-act/> (S.760<https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/760>; H.R. 1770<https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1770>)) verabschiedet. Dieses Gesetz erklärt die Publikation von OGD in maschinenlesbarer Form und unter offenen Nutzungslizenzen für die gesamte Administration für verbindlich.

Das OGD-Gesetz:

  *   Pushes federal agencies to publish all their data sets in a truly accessible manner, as machine-readable data, using open formats;
  *   Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director to publish consolidated and comprehensive guidance to govern agency implementation of the bill's requirements;
  *   Mandates that agency Chief Information Officers (CIOs) follow OMB guidance to make all public federal data sets available through a central Federal Data Catalog managed by the General Services Administration (GSA);
  *   Creates expectations for agency CIOs to improve the integrity, quality, and utility of their data assets;
  *   Challenges the government's current use of proprietary data sets by requiring agencies to use open formats for any new open government data asset and to the extent practicable adopt open formats for all open data assets created before the passage of the Act;
  *   Empowers agency Chief Information Officers with oversight over data asset management, formatting, compilation of the agency Enterprise Data Inventory, reviewing best practices and public engagement, ensuring agency IT infrastructure can support open data, ensuring that agencies use their own data assets to improve operations, and using data to support government-wide administration, statistics, research and financial management initiatives; and
  *   Writes meaningful definitions for "data asset", "metadata", and "machine-readable" into US law to enable smarter legislation in the future.

Weitere Informationen zum OGD-Gesetzt finden sich auf der Hompage der Data Coalition: https://www.datacoalition.org/press-releases/open-government-data-act-set-to-clear-senate/.

Herzlichst
André

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