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    "title" : "DATA.Gov: The Next Step is Yours |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"DATA.Gov: The Next Step is Yours","summary" : "Americans are rocking open data! From getting people to the emergency room faster with iTriage to helping them navigate road and rail after a disaster, people are innovating, building businesses, and creating safer communities. As developers get more sophisticated and businesses get better analytics, Data.gov needs to change to support them in new ways and","date" : "2013-07-19T10:18:24-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"sally-bourrie" : "Sally Bourrie"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2013/07/2013-07-19-the-next-step-is-yours.md","slug" : "the-next-step-is-yours","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/07/19/the-next-step-is-yours/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eAmericans are rocking open data! From getting people to the emergency room faster with \u003ca href=\"http://itriage.org/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eiTriage\u003c/a\u003e to helping them navigate road and rail after a \u003ca href=\"http://www.redcross.org/mobile-apps/hurricane-app\" target=\"_blank\"\u003edisaster\u003c/a\u003e, people are innovating, building businesses, and creating safer communities. As developers get more sophisticated and businesses get better analytics, Data.gov needs to change to support them in new ways and your ideas will help to build that future.\u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2013/07/Next-DATAgov-image.jpg\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2013/07/Next-DATAgov-image-250x187.jpg\"\n    alt=\"screenshot of Data.gov homepage\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou are invited to create that new vision. Join us over the next few months \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/GSA/datagov-design\" target=\"_blank\"\u003edeveloping innovative changes\u003c/a\u003e and ideas around open data. We’ve started by creating an open source code base and a new catalog, and we want you to help us with the next step … \u003ca href=\"http://next.data.gov/\"\u003eNext.Data.gov\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://alpha.data.gov/\"\u003eAlpha.Data.gov\u003c/a\u003e was launched in January to shine the light on the stories of people using government data. Whether it’s a company formed around energy data with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.data.gov/energy/page/welcome-green-button\"\u003eGreen Button Initiative\u003c/a\u003e or a university research lab using big data to uncover new insights, Alpha highlights accomplishments from developers and entrepreneurs. Your feedback on Alpha has helped to shape our next steps.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have also co-led an open source activity with India, Canada, and Ghana called the Open Government Platform (OGPL). The source code behind the evolution of Data.gov is available for free, and each country has made contributions to OGPL on \u003ca href=\"http://ogpl.github.io/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGithub\u003c/a\u003e. In addition to providing the Drupal code behind the successful communities on Data.gov (Energy, Safety, Research, and Ocean), we have worked with the Open Knowledge Foundation to evolve \u003ca href=\"http://ckan.org/2013/05/13/announcing-ckan-2-0/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCKAN 2.0\u003c/a\u003e. This \u003ca href=\"https://catalog.data.gov/dataset\"\u003ecatalog\u003c/a\u003e, which went live in May, provides geospatial visualizations, easier searching, and a basis for better dataset descriptions.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://next.data.gov/\"\u003eNext.Data.gov\u003c/a\u003e, provides a new view of the front page of Data.gov featuring a large data visualization at the top, news and content from agencies and communities, and a taste of how data can be federated from more than 200 organizations. What do you think? Tell us your ideas on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ProjectOpenData\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTwitter\u003c/a\u003e and Quora. Can you build a better version? Show us! Contribute code or comments via our \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/GSA/datagov-design\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGithub\u003c/a\u003e site with a pull request.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLooking forward to a bright future as we create it together!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally posted on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.data.gov/blogs\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eData.gov blog\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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