Data.gov heads for overhaul

In documents circulating among federal agencies and released to the public on Tuesday, the Office of Management and Budget has laid out plans to move Data.gov out of "beta" phase and into "government-wide execution," as federal CIO Vivek Kundra put it in an interview last week. Released at the same time as the Obama administration's wider Open Government Directive, a memo and draft concept-of-operations document encourage agencies to post more data on Data.gov, with an eye toward ensuring data is machine-readable, high-quality, and useful while also protecting privacy and security interests.

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