Socrata to Collaborate with Sunlight Labs to Define Open Framework for Increasing Transparency and Sharing of Public Data

SEATTLE, March 27, 2010 – Socrata, Inc., the global leader in shared services for open public data, announced today that it is contributing the specification for its Socrata Open Data API™ (SODA) to the global open data community under a Creative Commons license. This allows developers working on open data projects in public and private organizations worldwide to freely access the underlying data and rich feature set of any Web service or application based on the industry-leading Socrata Social Data Platform™.