Public Knowledge Supports Guidelines for Open Government Data

Public Knowledge has joined ten other organizations in support of a set of existing guidelines for releasing public government data in the United States, entitled “Open Government Data: Best-Practices Language for Making Data ‘License-Free.’” The organization hopes that US federal agencies will adopt the recommended language in order to make sure it is known that their data publications are in the public domain. As the guidelines state, government data is more valuable when it is clear that there is a green light enabling reuse.