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

[Julia Keserű]

Thanks everyone!
Here`s our post on data inventories from all around the world. (Sorry for
cross-posting.)
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/05/13/how-unique-is-the-new-u-s-open-data-policy/
Julia


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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