Data.gov, the federal government’s central catalog for open data sets, is the latest casualty of the ongoing government shutdown. Visitors to the site are now met ...

Data.gov heavily relies on HTML and PDF for its file formats, leaving two George Mason University researchers to ponder if the federal government’s data repository is achieving what it set out to ...

Though the debate about open data in government is an evolving one, it is indisputably here to stay -- it can be heard in both houses of Congress, in state legislatures, and in city halls around the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a sweeping overhaul of its open data strategy, marked by the release of a dynamic “Living HHS Open Data Plan” and ...

Zillow, the fast-growing online real estate marketplace, couldn’t exist without public data. More specifically, it probably couldn’t exist without online public data relating to real estate sales ...

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 ...

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, ...

From eight simple principles to today's vast ecosystem, here's what's happening -- and how to take full advantage. In December 2007, 30 open-data pioneers gathered in Sebastopol, Calif., and penned a ...

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 ...