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US government to release open data using OKF’s CKAN platform

blog.okfn.org on 02/01/2013

Excerpt: You may have seen hints of it before, but the US government data portal, data. gov, has just announced officially that its next iteration – “data. gov 2. 0″ – will incorporate CKAN, the open-source data management system whose development is led and co-ordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The OKF itself is one of the organisations helping to implement the upgrade. Like all governments, the US collects vast amounts of data in the course of its work. Because of its commitment to Open Data tens of thousands of datasets are openly published through data. gov. The new-look data. gov will be a major enhancement, and will for the first time bring together geospatial data with other kinds of data in one place.... read the full post.
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