Fwd: [Aust-NZ] Data.gov moves to open source

[John Smith]

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From: Ross Johnson <ros...@hotmail.com>
Date: 21 December 2012 18:54
Subject: [Aust-NZ] Data.gov moves to open source
To: Aust NZ Aus Geo List <aus...@lists.osgeo.org>


FYI: some inspiration for the future of Australia's data portals?


Data.gov moving to an Open Source platform
19 December 2012

The team that manages Data.gov is well on its way to making the
government data repository open source using a new back-end called the
Open Government Platform, officials said during a Web discussion
Wednesday.
The governments of India and Ghana have already launched beta versions
of their data catalogues on the open source platform, said Jeanne Holm
who heads the Data.gov team.
Government developers from the U.S. and India built the OGPL jointly.
They posted it to the code sharing site GitHub where other nations and
developers can adopt it as is or amend it to meet their specific
needs.

Read more: http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2012/12/datagov-will-soon-move-open-source-platform/60272/








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