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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Re:Shakespeare:To share or not to share?

[betterunixthanunix]

We are not talking about the government sharing data on individual citizens or on military secrets. We are talking about things involving government spending, contracts, loans, grants, etc. Things that citizens should have access to, but have trouble organizing.