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City of Seattle and State of Oregon Win the 2011 Digital Government Achievement Awards The Digital Government Achievement Awards (DGAA) recognize outstanding agency and department websites and applications. This year, the State of Oregon won in the Government-to-citizen State and Federal government category, for data.oregon.gov, the state’s Socrata-powered Open Data site. Seattle won in the Government-to-citizen [...]
Continue Reading →For nearly two years, participants in the Open Data movement, have worked tirelessly to make unfettered access to public data, at all levels of government, a sustainable and irreversible reality. Open Data sites are springing up all around the world, while those who put Open Data on the map like Data.gov, Medicare, NOAA, San Francisco, [...]
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Public disclosure of government data isn’t merely about transparency and accountability. By adopting Open Data as a Platform, agencies can more quickly and cost-effectively deliver services that support their own programs and missions, while also making it much easier to publish data for citizens and civic-minded developers.
Continue Reading →Yesterday we announced that on July 21st, we will launch a broad market study to benchmark the state of Open Data in government. We believe this will be the very first time that government stakeholders, mainstream citizens and civic application developers will all be invited to share their perspectives on this nascent movement. Why are [...]
Continue Reading →Led by New York City Council Member Gale A. Brewer, on Monday June 21, 2010 the New York City Council Committee on Technology will hold a hearing on Open Data standards for all NYC agencies. The specifics of the hearing are as follows: The New York City Council Committee on Technology will hold an important hearing [...]
Continue Reading →Today, the status quo for governments sharing public data is via the CSV. It’s the de facto standard by which most government organizations publish their data for consumption. The CSV is no longer an acceptable format for data publishing. It’s time to raise the bar on how government open data sites like data.gov and DataSF.org [...]
Continue Reading →Now anyone can create maps in Socrata. Creating a Google map, Bing map or ESRI ArcGIS map in Socrata is easy. Maps can be created by the dataset owner (i.e. the publisher) or even by a casual viewer who wants to socially enrich the data by creating a map. To create a map, follow these [...]
Continue Reading →There is a global open data movement underway. Cities, counties, states and national governments are sharing their data with citizens. But all we citizens are not alike. One size does not fit all. Socrata has spent the majority of the last three years focused on understanding the consumption side of the data publishing equation. We’re [...]
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