Data.gov

Data.gov

• Catalog
• Topics
• API & faceted search
• Github

Process

Agency → Project Open Data → Data.gov

Agencies

Agency data management

Range of solutions

• CKAN
• Hosted - inventory.data.gov
• Socrata
• Homegrown

Project Open Data

Project Open Data

• Policy
• Dashboard
• Implementation Guide
• Data.json Schema
• Github

Value of well structured metadata

• Accessibility and Discoverability
• Interoperability
• Analysis

Schema.org

Webmaster Tools

Structured Metadata
✓

Structured Data
?

Structured in lots of ways

• Multitude of formats
• Each format can provide a wide range of possible structures
• Many ways to provide schemas and data dictionaries
• No common approach to elaborate on the structure of a spreadsheet

Reference Data Structure from Metadata

Proposed new fields in Project Open Data schema update

• conformsTo - reference established data standard
• describedBy - reference machine readable schema
• describedByType - specify type of schema

Updates to Data.gov

Questions?

Hack this presentation!

• View online: http://gsa.github.io/datagov-presentations/OSCM/
• Github: Submit pull requests / Add issues