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A proposed set of federal guidelines for making vendor provided information technology systems more open to both the public, and to government itself
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Open Data Requirements for Government Contracts.md

Data Ownership & Definitions

Definitions:

Non-Proprietary formats

  • Means documented, non-binary, non-encrypted, machine-readable formats that are able to be used by multiple EIT vendors or citizens.
  • Examples of non-proprietary data formats include JSON, XML, and CSV

Data documentation

  • Means documentation about the meanings of rows, columns, fields in data. This documentation should be in standard document formats such as HTML that require no proprietary readers in order to open and read.

Machine Readable

  • Means data that can be imported into other computer software systems without a human operator's intervention.

Bulk download

  • Means data provided in a single file or archived set of files that includes data in its entirety.

Clauses

Data Portability

  • Contractor shall, at no additional cost, provide functionality that allows government administrators to export data from the system in standard, non-proprietary formats. This data should be accessible via bulk download in the graphical user interface of the provided system, and should not require support or extra cost from the contractor to extract government data.

Data documentation

  • Contractor shall furnish data documentation to government. This documentation shall include instructions for how government operators can to export data from the system, and how it can import data

Personally identifiable information

  • Contractor's data documentation shall include enumeration of which fields may contain personally identifiable information, so that this information may be redacted and released to the public.
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Can we get some word wrap on this? The side-scroll is killer...

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cjoh commented Jul 10, 2013

@ahsonwardak whoops. Appropriate file extension added. It's what I get for finishing up work when a plane is landing.

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@cjoh Thanks! Much more readable!

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