Um seiner Aufklärungsarbeit im digitalen Zeitalter nachkommen zu können, müssen die Redaktionen lernen, mit Rohdaten umzugehen und Werkzeuge entwickeln, die aus den Datenbergen relevante Geschichten destillieren

Substantial businesses have long "re-purposed" what's available from court proceedings, census publications, CIA atlases, and agency scientific and commercial compilations. It seems plausible that release of, say, crime statistics in Cook County, or water flows of the Colorado River, will be valuable to someone. Which datasets are worth processing first, though?

Specialists widely believe what European Commission VP Neelie Kroes and others have said: "Your data is worth more if you give it away." As with many other IT issues, though the people in the best position to make such measurements are too busy creating the future to invest time rigorously justifying it.

The use of open source software, cloud computing technologies, and an integrated approach to search, video, and social media seems almost common-place in industry these days. Yet government websites aren’t quite there with the exception of a few noteable exceptions (not an exhaustive list by any means). This is why I’m so excited about that NASA has recently released an RFI (Request for Information) for information on how to build a better public website nasa.gov and intranet insdie.nasa.gov. This is a really big step for NASA, but,we truly need your help.

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Configuring the Networked Self was published by Yale University Press in 2012.

This document presents highlights of the Metadata Management Survey results. It helps to understand the current state of affairs with regards to Metadata Management in the EU Member States.

OpenStack is an IaaS cloud computing project by Rackspace Cloud and NASA.

ISPRAT Projekt

Die „Social Media Guidelines“ sind das Ergebnis der rechts- und verwaltungs-wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung des Lorenz-von-Stein-Instituts für Verwaltungswissenschaften im Rahmen des von ISPRAT geförderten Projekts „Web 2.0 in der öffentlichen Verwaltung

The Public Engagement Principles (PEP) Project was launched in mid-February 2009 to create clarity in our field about what we consider to be the fundamental components of quality public engagement, and to support President Obama’s January 21, 2009 memorandum on open government.

What are the elements of the Commission's Open Data package

A revision of the Decision governing re-use of Commission's own information

the Communication will support the creation of Europe-wide open data portals, making public data easily useable.