Congress releases open data on bill status | E Pluribus Unum

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-02-26

Summary:

"Imagine searching Facebook, Google or Twitter for the status of a bill before Congress and getting an instant result. That future is now here, but it’s not evenly implemented yet. When the Library of Congress launched Congress.gov in 2012, they failed to release the data behind it. Yesterday, that changed when the United States Congress started releasing data online about the status of bills. For the open government advocates, activists and civic hackers that have been working for over a decade for this moment, seeing Congress turn on the data tap was a historic shift ..."

Link:

http://e-pluribusunum.org/2016/02/25/congress-open-data-bill-status/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.psi oa.usa oa.government oa.data

Date tagged:

02/26/2016, 10:21

Date published:

02/26/2016, 05:21