{"id":4913,"date":"2016-01-29T20:44:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T20:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2016-01-29T20:44:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T20:44:15","slug":"open-web-resource-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2016\/01\/29\/open-web-resource-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Web Resource Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/files\/2016\/01\/datagovhome.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1454\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-1454\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/files\/2016\/01\/datagovhome-1024x558.png\" alt=\"datagovhome\" width=\"620\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/files\/2016\/01\/datagovhome-300x163.png 300w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/files\/2016\/01\/datagovhome-1024x558.png 1024w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/files\/2016\/01\/datagovhome.png 1574w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a>The U.S. government has long been an active gatherer and disseminator of information. In recent years, with the roll out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.data.gov\/\">data.gov<\/a> website, it has made strides to make this data more accessible and useable by the public, researchers, app developers, and businesses. The site serves as a gateway to publicly available datasets from not only the federal government, but also state and local governments as well as universities. These data cover a wide range of subject matter including: education, employment, agriculture, and public safety.\u00a0 According to the site, the number of datasets available currently stands at over 192,000.\u00a0 The site also provides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.data.gov\/applications\">examples<\/a> of businesses and organizations that rely on the data to power their sites\/applications.<\/p>\n<p>As some reviewers have pointed out, data.gov is not without its limits. For example, the currency of the data provided varies; in some cases, more recent data can be found on an agency\u2019s own website. In addition, the file formats provided vary quite a bit, from HTML to XML, CSV, and others. The scope and depth of participation by federal agencies with the data.gov initiative vary as well; details can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.data.gov\/metrics\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To search the available datasets from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.data.gov\/\">main page<\/a>, enter a keyword(s) in the main search box. Or, to browse available datasets, select a topic from the \u201cBrowse Topics\u201d icons. Then select the \u201cData\u201d or &#8220;Data Catalog&#8221; tab to view the available datasets. These sets can then be narrowed using the filters on the left side of the screen. Results can be filtered based on the file format, the agency supplying the data, and other attributes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government has long been an active gatherer and disseminator of information. In recent years, with the roll out of the data.gov website, it has made strides to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5227,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913\/revisions\/5227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}