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Many governments publish open data they produce or commission on official websites to be freely used, reused, or redistributed by anyone. [1] [2] These sites are often created as part of open government initiatives. Some open data sites like CKAN and DKAN are open source data portal solutions where as others like Socrata are proprietary data ...
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India [1] [2] or data.gov.in is a platform for supporting Open data initiative of Government of India.This portal is a single-point access to datasets, documents, services, tools and applications published by ministries, departments and organisations of the Government of India.
Open government data (OGD), a term which refers specifically to the public publishing of government datasets, [67] is often made available through online platforms such as data.gov.uk or www.data.gov. Proponents of OGD argue that easily accessible data pertaining to governmental institutions allows for further citizen engagement within ...
Open data may include non-textual material such as maps, genomes, connectomes, chemical compounds, mathematical and scientific formulae, medical data, and practice, bioscience and biodiversity. A major barrier to the open data movement is the commercial value of data. Access to, or re-use of, data is often controlled by public or private ...
Data.gov. Data.gov is a U.S. Government website launched in late May 2009 by the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the United States, Vivek Kundra. Data.gov aims to improve public access to high value, machine-readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. [1] The site is a repository for Federal, state ...
CKAN's codebase is maintained by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The system is used both as a public platform on Datahub [3] and in various government data catalogues, such as the UK's data.gov.uk, [4] the Dutch National Data Register, [5] the United States government's Data.gov [6] and the Australian government's "Gov 2.0". [7]
Open Government Initiative. The Open Government Initiative is an effort by the administration of President of the United States Barack Obama to " [create] an unprecedented level of openness in Government." [1] The directive starting this initiative was issued on January 20, 2009, Obama's first day in office.
In 2006, The Guardian newspaper's Technology section began a "Free Our Data" campaign, calling for data gathered by authorities at public expense to be made freely available for reuse by individuals. In 2010 with the creation of the Open Government Licence and the Data.gov.uk site it appeared that the campaign had been mostly successful, and ...