Princeton Researchers Say Feds Need Data Standard

dcblogs writes "The federal government's data-sharing efforts are a mess, and if Barack Obama really wants a useful 'Google for government,' he would have to set the government's vast amount of data free by exposing it and ensuring it complies to standards. Once that happens, commercial sites, aggregators, bloggers and everyone else will be able to access it, use it and transform it, argue a group of Princeton researchers (follow Download link for full PDF)."

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Add them to the buying spree.

[bigtallmofo]

Barack Obama really wants a useful 'Google for government,'

Well, so far the government has bought parts of Bear Stearns and AIG. Maybe it's time they diversify into some technology companies like Google? Hell, let's buy them too!

GOXML

[Anonymous Coward]

I hear that Microsoft is already working on the problem with their proposed "Government Open XML" standard. This should not be confused with GOXMLb ("Google Open XML beta") because Microsoft would never try to confuse people on such an issue.

It is going up for ISO vote next week. Be there*.

(*) it will be very profitable for you to "be there".... nudge, nudge... wink, wink...

Re:Shakespeare:To share or not to share?

[ThaddaeusV]

"The Internet has made it possible to make more mistakes, faster, than any other invention in history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
-- A Usenet .sig I remember from years ago