SUMMARY NOTES: The DATA Act with U.S. Dept of Treasury at USG Open Data Quarterly - 6/20 stakeholder meeting

[Honey, Kristen T. EOP/OMB]

Thanks for attending the USG Open Data Quarterly meeting on June 20, 2017, at GSA. Below is a summary of the presentations with contact information:

 

Project Open Data and U.S. Open Government — Updates & Announcements

NEW! Public landing page launched for U.S. Open Government initiatives:  https://open.usa.gov/

Still to come is a two-way public engagement platform to co-create the U.S. National Action Plan (NAP) 4.0 commitments for report due October 2017

Questions? Contact Kristen Honey, OMB OFCIO: kho...@omb.eop.gov

 

Data.gov

Updates thanks to Phil Ashlock, GSA:  philip....@gsa.gov

mentioned that he recently spoke with other countries that are using the DCAT standard for their data catalog and we discussed trying to coordinate updates to the specification in the near future. DCAT is the metadata standard that forms the basis of the Project Open Data Metadata Schema v1.1.

 

Data.gov/metrics

The recently updated Data.gov metrics page features information such as dataset count by participating agencies and their component sub-agencies, the number of views for specific datasets, and dataset count by organization type.

 

Data.gov/events

To have your agency hosted/sponsored event featured on Data.gov's public calendar, email dat...@gsa.gov with the following information:

Jpg image promoting event (flyer, poster, e.t.c) preferred width: 860 pixels

URL to event page

Description of event in 100-250 words

Date and location of event

Contact information

 

The Opportunity Project 

Updates thanks to Drew Zachary, DOC: DZac...@doc.gov

 

The Opportunity Project is a process that engages the tech sector to create digital tools that expand American economic opportunity. The Department of Commerce connects experts from the tech and non-profit sectors with agency problem statements on priority issues including jobs, transportation, and housing, and facilitates 12-week sprints to create new digital tools to address these problems. 

 

We are seeking new tech companies, problem statements and data sets to work with and hope that you get involved!  Here are some ways to participate: 

1.       More information on The Opportunity Project, including links to the 40+ tools built so far, is here https://opportunity.census.gov/.  Our collection on data.gov is data.gov/opportunity.

 

2.       If you're interested in suggesting a problem statement for tech teams to focus on, or open data sets/APIs for teams to use, please contact: DZac...@doc.gov.

 

3.       Feel free to use or share the playbook: https://opportunity.census.gov/playbook.html, which outlines The Opportunity Project process for civic tech organizations, universities, code academies, or anyone else seeking to adapt the process on their own. We just ask that you give us a heads up so we can keep in touch with the community!

 

The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) by U.S. Department of Treasury

Featured presentation by Daniel C. Cain Danie...@fiscal.treasury.gov and Justin J. Marsico Justin....@fiscal.treasury.gov

 

·         The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) makes Federal spending data more accessible, searchable, and reliable. It will make it easier to understand how the Federal government spends taxpayer dollars but will also serve as a tool for better oversight, data-centric decision-making, and innovation both inside and outside of government.

 

·         The DATA Act required that the government develop data standards to ensure the reporting of reliable, consistent federal spending data for public use. This model, called the DATA Act Information Model Schema (DAIMS), created the first government-wide standard to connect budget, accounting, procurement, grant, loan and insurance data. The DAIMS sets an important foundation to organize data across the entire federal enterprise, connecting data elements that were previously segmented in separate databases and it can be extended in the future to include other relevant data.

 

·         In May, Treasury launched beta.USASpending.gov, which will run concurrently with the existing USASpending.gov over the summer. The new website will allow taxpayers to examine nearly $4 trillion in federal spending each year and see how this money flows from Congressional appropriations to local communities and businesses.

 

·         Treasury's DATA Act analytics team is working to "get the data moving," by conducting analysis of federal spending data, and by working with federal agencies, stakeholders, and the public to create insights into the federal government's programs and operations.

https://beta.usaspending.gov/ (Justin....@fiscal.treasury.gov)

 

Federal & Civil Society Announcements (also featured on Data.gov/events)

·         2017 EIA Energy Conference, TODAY: June 26, 2017

·         2017 DATA Act Summit: June 29, 2017

·         Roundtable on Open Data for Economic Growth: late July 2017

·         National Day of Civic Hacking: September 23, 2017

 

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Kristen Honey, PhD, PMP

Senior Policy Analyst

Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer

Office of Management and Budget

Executive Office of the President

(202) 881-8406    |     kho...@omb.eop.gov