[open-government] New US Executive Order -- Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information

Thu May 9 21:38:27 UTC 2013

Nothing about moving away from non-proprietary identifiers (i.e. D&B's DUNS
numbers), however, which are one of the things make Federal data less
useful than it should be...
Chris

On 9 May 2013 14:38, Julia Keserű <jkeseru at sunlightfoundation.com> wrote:

> Sorry for resending it to the whole group but here`s Sunlight`s response
> to the announcement:
>
> http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/05/09/open-data-executive-order-shows-path-forward/
>
> Does anyone have good examples for similar initiatives outside the US? We
> are interested in both municipal and national level inventories/information
> listings.
>
> The Canadian government created a research group to track federal data
> holdings within departments but we can`t find an update on the actual state
> of the project:
> http://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5190&Item_Id=122357&lang=en
> .
>
> How about the Open Data White Paper of the UK?
> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-data-white-paper-unleashing-the-potential
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Julia
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> I'm sure many of you will have seen this already, but for those of you
>> who haven't:
>>
>>
>> http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/09/executive-order-making-open-and-machine-readable-new-default-government-
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