Though the debate about open data in government is an evolving one, it is indisputably here to stay -- it can be heard in both houses of Congress, in state legislatures, and in city halls around the ...

When Marjorie Etique learnt that she had to create a data-management plan for her next research project, she was not sure exactly what to do. The soil chemist, a postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute ...

Don Murray is Cofounder & CEO of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. Imagine a world where governments made decisions in the dark, ...

Government reformers and advocates believe that two contemporary phenomena hold the potential to change how people engage with governments at all levels. The first is data. There is more of it than ...

ESA has adopted a society-wide Open Research Policy for its publications to further support scientific exploration and preservation, allow a full assessment of published research, and streamline ...

This story was orginally published by Data-Smart City Solutions. When New York City leaders passed comprehensive open data legislation in 2012, they set a high bar for open information and government ...