{
    "version" : "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1",
    "content" : "news",
    "type" : "single",
    "title" : "How the CIO Council Made Our Open Data Prioritization Tool Kit More Open |Digital.gov",
    "description": "How the CIO Council Made Our Open Data Prioritization Tool Kit More Open",
    "home_page_url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/","feed_url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/09/04/how-the-cio-council-made-our-open-data-prioritization-tool-kit-more-open/index.json","item" : [
    {"title" :"How the CIO Council Made Our Open Data Prioritization Tool Kit More Open","summary" : "The Open Data Prioritization Toolkit is categorized into phases of understanding, evaluating, and opening datasets.","date" : "2015-09-04T13:00:18-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"cio-council-operations-staff" : "CIO Council Operations Staff"},"topics" : {
        
            "content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
            "open-data" : "Open data"
            },"branch" : "bc-archive-content-3",
      "filename" :"2015-09-04-how-the-cio-council-made-our-open-data-prioritization-tool-kit-more-open.md",
      
      "filepath" :"news/2015/09/2015-09-04-how-the-cio-council-made-our-open-data-prioritization-tool-kit-more-open.md",
      "filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2015/09/2015-09-04-how-the-cio-council-made-our-open-data-prioritization-tool-kit-more-open.md",
      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2015/09/2015-09-04-how-the-cio-council-made-our-open-data-prioritization-tool-kit-more-open.md","slug" : "how-the-cio-council-made-our-open-data-prioritization-tool-kit-more-open","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/09/04/how-the-cio-council-made-our-open-data-prioritization-tool-kit-more-open/","content" :"\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/09/594-x-347-CIO-Open-Data-Prioritization-Toolkit-figure-1.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Shown in Figure 1, the Open Data Prioritization Toolkit is categorized into phases of understanding, evaluating, and opening datasets. It also shows alignment to support tools designed to help your agency throughout each phase. The provided tools are sample templates to guide agencies as they examine datasets and customize them based on their unique requirements.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eA few weeks ago the Council’s Innovation Committee released the \u003ca href=\"https://cio.gov/cio-council-releases-open-data-prioritization-toolkit/\"\u003eOpen Data Prioritization Toolkit\u003c/a\u003e. The response to the toolkit has been positive, but we also heard back from the community asking why the Open Data toolkit’s summary was locked up in a non-open format—PDF.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Council Operations Team noted the irony of publishing a guide to opening data in a non-open format made a decision to eat our own dogfood.After some scouring we found a few open source tools to make the summary a markdown document we could share in HTML format.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBelow is a rundown of the tools we used and how we did it. This is not an endorsement of specific tools, but it is an endorsement of making open the default for government publishing.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe used \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BenBalter\"\u003eBen Balter’s\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"http://word-to-markdown.herokuapp.com/\"\u003eword-to-markdown tool\u003c/a\u003e to convert our .docx copy of the summary to markdown.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe pasted the markdown into \u003ca href=\"https://stackedit.io/\"\u003eStackEdit\u003c/a\u003e to convert it to HTML. In StackEdit, we did have to clean up the HTML a bit. We reinserted the figure images (hosted on CIO.gov), re-linked the table of contents, and recreated the footnotes.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe exported the HTML and published on CIO.gov.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome notes:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou can still use StackEdit to export to PDF, too.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn alternative to StackEdit is \u003ca href=\"http://dillinger.io/\"\u003eDillinger.io\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe found this \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet\"\u003echeat sheet\u003c/a\u003e helpful with formatting in markdown.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe like using markdown because it allows you to focus on the content and not the formatting.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuestions? Tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ciodotgov\"\u003e@ciodotgov\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis post was originally published on the \u003ca href=\"https://cio.gov/cioc-blog/\"\u003eCIO Council blog\u003c/a\u003e by the CIO Council Operations Staff.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
  ]
}