Five Open Questions For Data.gov Before We #SaveTheData

Data.gov is coughing blood. The budget being negotiated by Congress will reduce the Electronic Government Fund by 75%, and the same open-gov advocates who championed the project for two years are now taking up arms to save it by persuading people of its importance. Data.gov has had around 1.5 million downloads in the past two years, but the impact of those downloads hasn?t been made clear enough and the site is difficult to use. This past week, I started a discussion on how to turn the project around. It drew great responses from people knowledgeable about Data.gov, but despite invitations, neither the Sunlight Foundation nor a representative of Data.gov took part. After a week of discussion, a series of common, simple questions emerged and as calls to #SaveTheData intensify, we still don?t know the answers to them.

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