Welcome to the Open Data Community!
Congratulations on becoming part of the movement to open and share data from governments across the world! This community bridges policy makers, technologists, data owners, and citizens-each of us wants to get information to people who need to make decisions each day. As a member of this open data community, you can help to make this happen. Make recommendations on data that should be shared. Create an app or mashup that makes that data understandable. Share your views on what the policies should be for making government more transparent. Together we can make a difference in our own nations and to help improve the quality of life for people across the planet. Join in the discussions below.
Forums
- Best practices - who’s doing what?
- Security and openness: what’s the balance?
- Policies for international data sharing
- Exploring semantic technologies
- Accessing and finding data
- Finding your way with geospatial data and apps
- The business behind open data - value and measurements
- Growing your data community
- Standards: Do we adopt or create?
Most Recent Blog
Cleaning Up Metadata Messiness
Recently, I took some time to do a little analysis of our geospatial metadata in geo.data.gov. The results are extremely interesting, and they highlight a difficult challenge facing Data.gov as we work towards improving ways that our users search for and discover Federal geospatial datasets, which rely heavily on the quality of our metadata.
