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Obama's open data era 'coming soon'
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| The Center for Responsive Politics, best known for its OpenSecrets.org Web
| site, has been standardizing, cleaning and organizing campaign and lobbying
| data on its Web site. It now intends to allow anyone to download compressed
| CSV text files of its data without charge beginning sometime next week.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2009/041009-obamas-open-data-era-coming.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Recent:
Obama Administration Claims Copyright Treaty Involves State Secrets?!?
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| When the Obama administration took over, there was a public stance that this
| administration was going to be more transparent -- especially with regards to
| things like Freedom of Information Act requests. The nonprofit group
| Knowledge Ecology International took that to heart and filed an FOIA request
| to get more info on ACTA. The US Trade Representative's Office responded
| denying the request, saying that the information was "classified in the
| interest of national security pursuant to Executive Order 12958." This is a
| treaty about changing copyright law, not sending missiles somewhere. To claim
| that it's a national security matter is just downright scary. As KEI points
| out, the text of the documents requested have been available to tons of
| people, including more than 30 governments around the world and lobbyists
| from the entertainment industry, pharma industry and publishing industry.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090313/1456154113.shtml
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