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Six reasons why making your agency's data open and accessible is a good business decision.

Status summary and preliminary business plan for a potential metadata management product under development by the Data.gov Program Management Office

It is a well-kept secret that the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Census Bureau were the original two federal agencies to build the first national digital database of roads and boundaries…

A community listserv and working group that unites 900 open data leads at federal agencies, data stewards, and all others in government interested in open data, enterprise data inventory, civic tech, and…

The NOAA Big Data Project (BDP) was created to explore the potential benefits of storing copies of key observations and model outputs in the Cloud to allow computing directly on the data…

The Opportunity Project of the U.S. Census Bureau is a collaborative effort between government agencies, technology companies, and nongovernment organizations to translate into user-friendly tools to solve real world problems for families,…

Outlines 8 principles for best practices for government open data, formed by open government advocates in 2007 and cross-referenced with principles from OMB Memo M-13-13.

The Federal Chief Data Officers Council (CDOC) is pleased to announce the publication of the DCAT-US v3.0 Schema Implementation Guide, an initial resource to help federal agencies implement the DCAT-US Schema v3.0…

The Data.gov Dashboard is a website enabling Federal agencies, industry, and the general public and other stakeholders to view details on how Federal agencies are progressing on implementing the Federal Open Data…

The public-facing site for Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

Many federal agencies have held open data events to engage with the public, the private sector, non-profits, academia and others on open data issues. This guidance outlines best practices for holding open…

Defines principles for the term "open" in regards to "open data" and "open content" to ensure quality and encourage compatibility between different pools of open material. The Open Definition, put most succinctly:…

This document focuses on near-term efforts agencies must take to meet the five initial requirements of M-13-13, which were due November 30, 2013.

A metadata crosswalk between the statutory metadata requirements of OMB Memorandum M-25-05 and the DCAT-US v3.0 schema.

DCAT-US 3 Schedule, Maintenance, and Release Plan

How to use Project Open Data Metadata Schema guidelines to document and list agency datasets and application programming interfaces (APIs) for hosting at agency.gov/data and currently in use at data.gov

Reference documentation for DCAT-US v3.0, the federal metadata standard for documenting datasets, APIs, and data services. Use this reference to build or validate your agency's data inventory.

Field-level reference for the DCAT-US v3.0 Catalog class. A Catalog is the top-level container for an agency's data inventory.

Further guidance on using the Project Open Data Metadata Schema guidelines to document application programming interfaces (APIs) in data.json files for hosting at agency.gov/data.

Guidance on how to tag, list, display, and create linkages for geospatial data between Data.gov and GeoPlatform.gov.

Implementation Guide

To improve the discoverability, usability, and governance of these priority agency data assets agencies shall apply the documenting techniques illustrated below.

Provides further background and resources to assist agencies in implementing the Project Open Data Metadata Schema v1.1. Maps fields from the current version of DCAT-US v1.1 to the previous version of the…

A step-by-step guide to updating your existing v1.1 data.json file to be valid against the DCAT-US v3.0 schema.

Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) is a powerful open source data management system that makes data accessible by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding, and using data. The Data.gov catalog is…

JSON API documentation for searching datasets, accessing harvest records, and retrieving keywords from the Data.gov catalog.

DKAN is community-driven, Drupal-based, free, and open source open data platform that gives organizations and individuals ultimate freedom to publish and consume structured information.

qu is an open source data platform created to serve the public data sets of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The goals of this platform are to import data in a Google-Dataset-inspired…

The Federal Data Strategy was established by OMB Memorandum M-19-18 and sets out a mission, 10 Principles, 40 Practices, and annual Action Plans for federal data management. This page collects its documents…

How the Federal Data Strategy was created, including the Cross-Agency Priority Goal that started it, the public comment process behind the Principles and Practices, and the development of the 2020 Action Plan.…

The 40 Practices of the Federal Data Strategy, organized into three categories covering data culture, data governance, and data use. Migrated from strategy.data.gov.

The 10 Principles of the Federal Data Strategy, grouped under Ethical Governance, Conscious Design, and Learning Culture. Migrated from strategy.data.gov.

This report outlines the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee's recommendations and best practices for the administration of FOIA. Dated April 17, 2018.

The text of H.R.4174 - Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018, known as the Evidence Act. Title II of the Evidence Act (OPEN Government Data Act) describes the requirements for CDOs,…

Office of Management and Budget memo that encourages Federal agencies to engage in coordinated, collaborated data-sharing in a manner that complies with applicable privacy laws, regulations, and polices. Dated November 3, 2010.…

To encourage the greater use of administrative data for statistical purposes, this Memorandum provides agencies with guidance for addressing the legal, policy, and operational issues that exist with respect to using administrative…

Office of Management and Budget memo that outlines action steps to meeting the requirements of the Evidence Act. Dated July 10, 2019.

Office of Management and Budget memo that established a framework to help institutionalize the principles of effective information management at each stage of the information's life cycle to promote interoperability and openness.…

How to fix accrualPeriodicity validation errors caused by plain English update frequency descriptions instead of the required ISO 8601 duration codes.

How to fix harvest validation errors in the contactPoint.hasEmail field caused by malformed email addresses, extra text, multiple addresses, or invisible characters.

How to identify and fix malformed date values in the modified and issued fields, the most common cause of harvest validation errors.

How to fix harvest validation errors where the keyword field is present but contains a string instead of the required array of strings.

How to fix license validation errors caused by free text descriptions or CSS strings in a field that requires a URL.

How to fix harvest validation errors caused by required metadata fields that are absent entirely from a dataset record.

How to identify and respond to less common harvest errors including duplicate identifiers, unrecognized record structures, and synchronization failures.

An overview of the most common harvest errors on harvest.data.gov, based on analysis of errors across 81 harvest sources. Use this page to identify your error type and find the right fix.…

A one-page summary of the most common harvest validation error fixes, including field corrections and ISO 8601 duration codes for accrualPeriodicity.

How to identify and fix transformation errors, which occur when harvest.data.gov cannot read or convert a metadata record before validation even begins.

A step-by-step guide to understanding harvest errors, reading the harvest job page, and fixing the most common metadata problems.

Learn how Data.gov harvests metadata from agency data sources and how to request a new harvest source or modify an existing one.

Details on how to get started with using inventory.data.gov, from creating a user account to using its features to manage datasets and export data.json.

A plain-language introduction to how harvest.data.gov works, what it does, and why it matters for federal data publishers.