Gardner, Peters Introduce Bill to Keep Government Research Data Publically Available

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Summary:

"U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Gary Peters (D-MI) today introduced bipartisan legislation to help federal agencies maintain open access to machine-readable databases and datasets created by taxpayer-funded research. The Preserving Data in Government Act would require federal agencies to preserve public access to existing open datasets, and prevent the removal of existing datasets without sufficient public notice. Small businesses rely on a range of publically available machine-readable datasets to launch or grow their companies, and researchers and scientists use data to conduct studies for a variety of fields and industries...."

Link:

https://www.gardner.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/gardner-peters-introduce-bill-to-keep-government-research-data-publically-available

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Date tagged:

04/27/2017, 16:59

Date published:

04/27/2017, 12:59