GovEx Launches First International Open Data Standards Directory - The Governance Lab @ NYU

"A nonprofit gov tech group has created an international open data standards directory, aspiring to give cities a singular resource for guidance on formatting data they release to the public.

The group is GovEx, also known as the Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University. Andrew Nicklin, GovEx director of data practices, said he was driven to work on it in part by challenges he saw when he helped build New York City’s open data platform in the early 2010s. A question he often struggled with then was what the best way was to publish data in order to make it relevant and usable by the largest number of people."