Project Open Data

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-08-20

Summary:

Use the link to access the full text guide.  The Introduction reads as folloes: "The purpose of this guidance is to provide additional clarification and detailed requirements to assist agencies in carrying out the objectives of Executive Order 13642 of May 9, 2013, Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information and OMB Memorandum M-13-13 Open Data Policy-Managing Information as an Asset. Specifically, this document focuses on near-term efforts agencies must take to meet the following five initial requirements of M-13-13, which are due November 1, 2013 (six months from publication of M-13-13): Create and maintain an Enterprise Data Inventory (Inventory) Create and maintain a Public Data Listing Create a process to engage with customers to help facilitate and prioritize data release Document if data cannot be released Clarify roles and responsibilities for promoting efficient and effective data release Agencies will establish an open data infrastructure by implementing this guidance and Memorandum M-13-13and taking advantage of the resources provided on Project Open Data. Once established, agencies will continue to evolve the infrastructure by identifying and adding new data assets 1, enriching the description of those data assets through improved metadata, and increasing the amount of data shared with other agencies and the public. At a minimum, a successful open data infrastructure must: * Provide a robust and usable Enterprise Data Inventory of an agency’s data assets, so that an agency can manage its data as strategic assets, * Incorporate iterative and efficient processes for managing and opening data assets, and * Create the Public Data Listing as a direct output or subset of the Enterprise Data Inventory. The “access level” categories described in this document are intended to be used for organizational purposes within agencies and to reflect decisions already made in agencies about whether data assets can be made public; simply marking data assets “public” cannot substitute for the analysis necessary to ensure the data can be made public. Agencies are reminded that this underlying data from the inventory may only be released to the public after a full analysis of privacy, confidentiality, security, and other valid restrictions pertinent to law and policy. This guidance seeks to balance the need to establish clear and meaningful expectations for agencies to meet, while allowing sufficient flexibility on the approach each agency may take to address their own unique needs. This guidance also includes references to other OMB memoranda that relate to the management of information. Agencies should refer to the definitions included in the attachment in OMB Memorandum M-13-13 Open Data Policy-Managing Information as an Asset. This guidance introduces an Enterprise Data Inventory framework to provide agencies with improved clarity on specific actions to be taken and minimum requirements to be met. It also provides OMB with a rubric by which to evaluate compliance and progress toward the objectives laid out in the Open Data Policy. Following the November 1, 2013 deadline, agencies shall report progress on a quarterly basis, and performance will be tracked through the Open Data Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) Goal. Meeting the requirements of this guidance will ensure agencies are putting in place a basic infrastructure for inventorying, managing, and opening up data to unlock the value created by opening up information resources."

Link:

http://project-open-data.github.io/implementation-guide/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.psi oa.government oa.usa oa.green oa.compliance oa.obama_directive oa.project_open_data oa.guides oa.repositories oa.data

Date tagged:

08/20/2013, 15:16

Date published:

08/20/2013, 11:16