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 ...

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 ...

The “Open Data for Data Users” e-learning course is designed to provide a broad overview of Open Data from a user standpoint, and empower anyone to take full advantage of Open Data. Open Data is a ...

In the beginning, data was closed. Although we have been ‘transporting’ data between different locations, systems and resources since the time of the first databases and personal computers in the ...