Senate Sends to House a Bill That Would Require Agencies to Publish Machine-Readable Data
The Senate on Dec. 10 passed S. 2852, the “OPEN Government Data Act,” by unanimous consent, sending the legislation to the House for consideration. Introduced April 26 by Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, the bill would require government data made available…
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by federal agencies to be published as machine-readable data, and to make agencies’ “enterprise data” inventories available on Data.gov. As described in the legislation, enterprise data include data assets used in agency information systems, including program administration, statistical and financial activity; data assets “shared or maintained” across agency programs and bureaus; and data assets shared among agencies or created by more than one agency.