From the monthly archives: August 2010

Socrata, Sunlight Foundation, Personal Democracy Forum, GovLoop and Code for America team up to benchmark the state of Open Data

SEATTLE, Wash. – August 26, 2010 – Socrata, Inc., together with leading public advocacy organizations, is surveying government employees about the progress of Open Data initiatives in federal, state and local governments. Socrata is a leading technology enabler of Open Data Services for government.

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Last month Socrata announced that we were commissioning an Open Government Data Benchmark Study to assess the state of the nascent Open Data movement. Via that announcement we also invited participation from advocacy groups who are passionate about this subject. We are honored that we have been joined in conducting this study by the Sunlight [...]

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Socrata launches a developer site, building on its commitment to help civic application developers access government data through modern Open Data APIs

SEATTLE, Wash. – August 11, 2010 – Socrata, Inc., a leading enabler of Open Data Services for government organizations, today launched the Socrata Open Data API (SODA) Developer Site to provide practical tools and resources to civic application developers who need programmatic access to government data. The focus of the Developer Site is to make it easy to access the API, retrieve data and perform more advanced operations such as searching and filtering, all in the developer’s language of choice.

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While you all have been enjoying summer, we at Socrata haven’t been “on holiday.” Quite the opposite. In addition to having a few new permanent employees and two summer interns making solid contributions, the overall pace of the company has been brisk this summer. I haven’t kept the blog as up to date as I [...]

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