Statewide Public Data Cataloging and Access Tools
A Federal website called data.gov is working with states and local governments to launch their own sites with access to machine-readable data and it looks like New York is not at the moment participating. Whether New York collaborates with data.gov or not, the concept behind what they are doing is compelling and worth investigating. One of the goals beyond making public data readily available is to encourage innovative ...more »
A Federal website called data.gov is working with states and local governments to launch their own sites with access to machine-readable data and it looks like New York is not at the moment participating.
Whether New York collaborates with data.gov or not, the concept behind what they are doing is compelling and worth investigating.
One of the goals beyond making public data readily available is to encourage innovative uses of the data - similar to how Google has taken data they have acquired and developed products and services around it.
It appears that this concept could develop into a "Data as a Service" offering that has unlimited potential.
Cataloging agency data also provides an opportunity to eliminate redundancy and increase data integrity via shared access to key data provider agencies which ultimately saves money.
Available data would be gradual at first as various agencies learn how to make their data machine readable through web services, xml, rss, etc and that could be done over time through workshops and training.
Perhaps there is Federal money that could be granted to this type of initiative.
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