Friday, May 22, 2009

Federal government launches data.gov -- government transparency -- InformationWeek

May 21, 2009

The federal government on Thursday launched Data.gov, intended to let organizations, businesses, and even consumers search large data sets of government information.

The site, launched by the office of federal CIO Vivek Kundra, is best categorized as early beta mode, as it offers very few data sets for perusing...