"High value" government data made public

With the release of almost 300 "high-value" data sets on Data.gov on Friday, the federal government made the first deliveries on the Obama administration's Open Government Directive. The multi-pronged directive to increase government transparency, developed on orders from President Obama, required agencies last week to identify and publish online at least three high-value data sets that had not been previously available online or in a downloadable format and to register those data sets on Data.gov, the government's open data Website.

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