Open Government

"This page contains the USDA Nutrition Dataset required for the Apps for Healthy Kids competition. This page also contains the optional Source Code (along with a read me file and installation directions)." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

bunch of nice looking XML files available by year and month - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"The maps on Recovery.gov allow the user to explore data in two ways. The Download Center provides access to all the data behind these maps. Recipient Reported Data (Blue Maps) The figures displayed on the blue maps are based on data submitted by federal contract recipients to FederalReporting.gov between Oct. 1 and Oct. 10, 2009. Using the Recipient Reported tab below, you can download the recipient federal contract award data by state or for the entire U.S. On Oct. 30, 2009, the final recipient federal contract data and the final data on grants and loans will be here. This data is collected and updated quarterly. Agency Reported Data (Gold Maps) The data on the gold maps come from three sources. The gold map on the homepage is based on weekly Financial and Activity Reports* filed by federal agencies receiving Recovery Act Funds. That data can be downloaded from the Agency Reported tab below. The gold map found on the "Where Is the Money Going?" page is based on data from... more... - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

looks like mostly XLS and maybe some XML - Mike Chelen

best way to download is probably a script or browser addon like downthemall, might be handy if someone put them together in a package - Mike Chelen

"Our aim is to promote transparency and citizen engagement through the analysis and visualisation of information about UK public spending. Where Does My Money Go? was a winner of the UK Government’s Show Us a Better Way competition in November 2008. We are currently working on a prototype which will be launched in Autumn 2009." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

you can tell it's british cuz they misspelled "visualizing" - Mike Chelen

"The flag ship website of the U.S. government, Whitehouse.gov, just relaunched on Drupal. This is a big day for Drupal, and for Open Source in government, and something all of us in the community should be very proud of." - François Dongier from Bookmarklet

""What people have referred to a few times as the killer app for government data is just localizing everything," says Hawke. "Right now, all the data flows to Washington and then sits there." But with Semantic Web technologies, he says, local communities could build applications that automatically pull together data from the scattered web sites of different federal agencies, Congressional or Senate committees or subcommittees, and courts and "let people see anytime a regulation is coming along that is actually going to affect their neighborhood or job status."" - François Dongier from Bookmarklet

"In September’s episode of the Semantic Web Gang we are joined by Brand Niemann of the United States’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a discussion of efforts to apply semantic technologies to Government data in the USA and elsewhere." - François Dongier from Bookmarklet

"Citizens are empowered to spark the innovation that will result in an improved approach to governance. " - François Dongier

"Every day, governments and government agencies publish more data on the Internet. Sharing this data enables greater transparency; delivers more efficient public services; and encourages greater public and commercial use and re-use of government information. Some governments have even created catalogs or portals (such as data.gov) to make it easy for the public to find and use this data. Although the reasons may vary, the logistics and practicalities of opening government data are the same. To help governments open and share their data, the W3C eGov Interest Group has developed the following guidelines. These straightforward steps emphasize standards and methodologies to encourage publication of government data, allowing the public to use this data in new and innovative ways." - François Dongier from Bookmarklet

See also: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriS... - François Dongier

"Using information from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that is made public by data.gov" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"WATERS exposes several mapping services that provide access to numerous datasets. This web page describes the content and purpose of each mapping service. Each service is provided in ESRI proprietary formats Exit EPA Disclaimer and Open Geospatial Consortium Exit EPA Disclaimer open standards formats to enable the display and query of spatial WATERS data." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"After 47 great entries, we have three finalists in the Apps for America contest, and now it is time for us to figure out the winners." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

agency breakdown is a nice usage of google visualization api: http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/demo... - Mike Chelen

Q re http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/demo... ... how do you represent the completeness of the data? ie. are most of the recent earthquakes on the northern rim of the pacific, or might there have been others in asia and s.america which simply weren't in your working dataset? This is a pretty general but very common UI issue with semweb and mashup data, especially when information or its coverage is limited in some fashion... - Dan Brickley

Dan: think it includes all earthquakes worldwide, difficult to tell immediately from the data set page http://www.data.gov/details/34 however the "data collection instrument link" http://earthquake.usgs.gov/researc... indicates the records are collected through a global sensor network. it would be interesting to know if there is any variation in sensor placement that might effect the detection results. - Mike Chelen

"This module loads OpenSecrets Open Data provided by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) for non-commercial use. The following Campaign Finance Data tables are currently supported: * Candidates * FEC Committees (PACs, Candidate and Party Committees) * PACs to Candidates * PACs to PACs" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"For those of you working with OpenSecrets Open Data, MAPLight.org has released a module that loads the campaign finance data into Drupal. Details at: http://bit.ly/JPAvR" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet