FCC Makes Open Internet Comments More Accessible to Public | FCC.gov

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-08-06

Summary:

"It goes without saying that there has been tremendous interest in the FCC’s Open Internet rulemaking.  As of yesterday, over 1.1 million comments were filed in the docket, both through our Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) and our special openinternet@fcc.gov email address.  We welcome and expect many more comments in the weeks to come.  And to be clear, every comment will be reviewed as part of the official record of this proceeding. Because of the sheer number of comments and the great public interest in what they say, Chairman Wheeler has asked the FCC IT team to make the comments available to the public today in a series of six XML files, totaling over 1.4 GB of data – approximately two and half times the amount of plain-text data embodied in the Encyclopedia Britannica.  The release of the comments as Open Data in this machine-readable format will allow researchers, journalists and others to analyze and create visualizations of the data so that the public and the FCC can discuss and learn from the comments we’ve received.  Our hope is that these analyses will contribute to an even more informed and useful reply comment period, which ends on September 10.  We will make available additional XML files covering reply comments after that date. A few other housekeeping matters:  First, mailed comments postmarked prior to July 18 are still being scanned and entered into the ECFS and may not be reflected in the files.  We will post an updated XML file when they are completed, so stay tuned.  Second, certain handwritten comments may not be searchable.  For this reason, source links to these comments are included in the files.  Finally, we hope that whatever visualizations are developed using this open data will comply with the standards that allow use and access by differently-abled individuals.  The Chairman and the FCC CIO are committed to ensuring accessible web content in multiple forms for all ..."

Link:

http://www.fcc.gov/blog/fcc-makes-open-internet-comments-more-accessible-public

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Tags:

net neutrality open data raw materials oa.new oa.comment oa.psi oa.fcc oa.usa oa.government oa.formats oa.net_neutrality oa.data

Date tagged:

08/06/2014, 14:08

Date published:

08/06/2014, 04:02