The United States federal open data portal, data.gov, launched in May, 2009, with just 47 datasets. It was not an instant hit. Today, with more 200,000 datasets, it’s a lot more popular. Still, ...
It is a movement building steady momentum: a call to make research data, software code and experimental methods publicly available and transparent. A spirit of openness is gaining traction in the ...
Data has the power to revolutionise and disrupt the way societies are governed. None more so than open data, which is free to access, free to use and can be shared by anyone. It’s non-personal and can ...
This section provides some of the tools that governments will need to take the first steps in an Open Data initiative. It is intended for public sector managers and staff who have been tasked with ...
Open Data is data that can freely be used and is made available in a machine-readable format. Statistics Netherlands provides three different types of open data. The OData interfaces (APIs) of ...
Government reformers and advocates believe that two contemporary phenomena hold the potential to change how people engage with governments at all levels. The first is data. There is more of it than ...
This section provides guidance on the selection and implementation of various technologies used to develop Open Data platforms, with a particular focus on Open Data catalogs, which are the web-based ...
Recent initiatives have dramatically increased the range of previously “closed” data being made “open” by the government, including data sets on travel, weather and healthcare. This data can then be ...