The United States federal open data portal, data.gov, launched in May, 2009, with just 47 datasets. It was not an instant hit. Today, with more 200,000 datasets, it’s a lot more popular. Still, ...

A large part of urban planning involves navigating how people experience a place. That kind of insight can require collecting data at a level of detail that large-scale datasets cannot provide.

The U.S. Government collects and maintains a database of nearly 200,000 data sets - free and open for public use. You can find data relating to health, energy, climate, manufacturing and many other ...

NOAA Fisheries’ Open Science initiative supports scientists, developers, resource managers, and policy analysts in the adoption of modern, open, reproducible scientific workflows that enhance our ...

These days, the vast majority of state and local governments have implemented some kind of open data system to share government data resources with developers and the public at large. But what data ...

This section provides guidance on the selection and implementation of various technologies used to develop Open Data platforms, with a particular focus on Open Data catalogs, which are the web-based ...

Seems like it was only a few years ago when my town of Chicago launched its first-of-a-kind municipal open data portal. Oh wait, it was only a few years ago. It was 2010. What a difference seven short ...

Government reformers and advocates believe that two contemporary phenomena hold the potential to change how people engage with governments at all levels. The first is data. There is more of it than ...

The World Bank’s Open Government Data Working Group developed an Open Data Readiness Assessment (ODRA) methodological tool that can be used to conduct an action-oriented assessment of the readiness of ...