What's New in Civic Tech: White House Removes Open Data Info, Internet Archive Offers to Host PACER Data
lterrat's bookmarks 2017-02-17
Summary:
"The White House has removed all of the information that was previously available through its open data portal, posting a message that encourages visitors to 'check back soon for new data.'
The old data, however, is still available through President Obama’s archive page, albeit in a format where some of the links are not functioning properly. On Thursday, Feb. 16, Alex Howard, deputy director of the Sunlight Foundation, took to Twitter to address the matter.
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The Internet Archive has offered to host all of the data from the government’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records system, doing so in a statement submitted for the record on Tuesday, Feb. 14 to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet of the Judiciary Committee in the House of Representatives."