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Serving the Needs of Data Practitioners with a New resources.data.gov

July 2, 2020 By Crystal Carter

We are excited to announce the relaunch of a new resources.data.gov , an online repository of policies, tools, case studies, and other resources to support data governance, management, exchange, and use throughout the federal government. The site is a joint effort … Continued

Updates to Data.gov Home Page

May 12, 2020 By Crystal Carter

Data.gov has made a few updates to its home page in recent days. For users seeking information about the coronavirus, we have added a prominent link to coronavirus.gov We have also added navigation to two existing sites, strategy.data.gov and resources.data.gov . Strategy.data.gov is … Continued

Data.gov at Ten and the OPEN Government Data Act

May 31, 2019 By Hyon Kim

This May marks the tenth anniversary of Data.gov, the federal government’s open data site. Launched by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) in May 2009 with a modest 47 datasets, Data.gov has grown to over 200,000 datasets from hundreds of … Continued

Duplicate Entries Removed from Data.gov Catalog

February 27, 2019 By Data.gov

In the last few days, you may have noticed a significant drop in the total number of datasets displayed on the Data.gov catalog . The decrease was not due to an actual reduction in the number of datasets, but the removal … Continued

Data.gov Catalog Update

August 16, 2018 By Data.gov

The heart of Data.gov is the catalog . The Data.gov catalog brings together datasets from hundreds of agency sources across the federal government and from 50 non-federal sources. Metadata for datasets that are available to the public are maintained by the … Continued