Data.gov

With so much government data to work with, developers are creating a wide variety of applications, mashups, and visualizations. From crime statistics by neighborhood to the best towns to find a job to seeing the environmental health of your community–these applications arm citizens with the information they need to make decisions every day. Enjoy these highlights of the hundreds of applications available.

Data.gov is leading the way in democratizing public sector data and driving innovation. The data is being surfaced from many locations making the Government data stores available to researchers to perform their own analysis. Developers are finding good uses for the datasets, providing interesting and useful applications that allow for new views and public analysis. This is a work in progress, but this movement is spreading to cities, states, and other countries. After just one year a community is born around open government data.

As the Web of linked documents evolves to include the Web of linked data, we're working to maximize the potential of Semantic Web technologies to realize the promise of Linked Open Government Data.

Thanks to our collaboration with the Tetherless World Constellation at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Data.gov is now hosting one of the largest open collections of RDF datasets in the world! Check out some of their semantic mashups we're featuring and read our blog entry to learn more about where we are, where we're going, and why we think this platform will add tremendous value to democratized data.