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Open Data Scorecards?
How can one evaluate a government entity's progress in making their data open?
I've read the 8 Principles of Open Government Data, but I'd like to know if there are tools to specifically grade an ...
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Is there an open standard for the CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Finance Report)?
I would like to push my local government to provide the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) as an open data source. I was wondering if we could go one step further by providing it in a ...
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Is there (or should there be) a standard way to categorize procurement data at the municipal level?
One of the data sets that I see being released by cities is information about what services cities are procuring. For example, the City of Chicago lists their contract award data like this: https://...
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Government standards, guidelines, and practices for collecting data
By standards, guidelines, and practices for collecting data I mean the rules that facilitate:
Practical value: Collecting data with a specific goal in mind
Data integrity: Minimizing omissions and ...
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Understanding City Budgets
What are the most fruitful ways to dissect a city budget for the non-accountant? Are there any standards for releasing budget data that I should be advocating?
In my particular case(Fort Lauderdale, ...
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