One year ago this Friday, United States chief information officer Vivek Kundra launched an ambitious website called Data.gov to make the government’s vast stores of data available to the public. The ...

Even a cursory examination of Data.gov's newly released high-value datasets revealed 10 types of quality deficiencies, says columnist Mike Daconta. Transparency should be a three-legged stool of ...

Data disruptions could cause big issues in both the public and private sectors. What happens when one of the world's largest repositories of free information becomes unreliable? That dire situation ...

The US government’s data portal offers more than 150,000 datasets, and even these are only a fraction of the data resource available through US federal, state and local governments. Information riches ...

The Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab published a vast collection of federal datasets on Thursday, preserving them as part of its newly-established data vault project. The collection contains ...

Orders from the Trump administration affecting science and health in the United States — and from there, the world — are coming thick and fast, affecting a myriad of institutional and personal ...