Introduction

This page contains background research and useful writings on open data principles and principles for building data catalogs.

Open Data Principles

Open Data Principles Discussion Draft
"Ten Principles for Opening Up Government Information" (8/11/2010)
"A Principled Look at Open Data" (8/11/2010)
"Open Data is Civic Capital: Best Practices for Open Government Data" (4/14/2010)
"A Study in Transparency: The Open Government Directive, the Department of Labor, and the Open Data Principles" (4/12/2010)
"Government Data Sets - Managing Expectations" (4/7/2010)
"Open Knowledge" defined by Open Definition; and "Open Software Service" defined by Open Definition
"Evaluating /Open pages" (1/29/2010)
Open Data Principles Spreadsheet (January, 2010)
"Publishing Open Government Data" W3C (9/8/2009)
"8 Open Government Data Principles," from Sebastopol, California (12/2/2007)
"Themes for Legislative Information Publication," (2/12/2007)

10 Principles for Improving Federal Transparency, by Vivek Kundra (7/14/2011)
"Publishing Open Government Data" W3C Working Draft (8/9/2009)
"Why everyone should know what makes a good data set; it’s not as hard as you think" (3/29/2010)
“Government Datasets That Facilitate Innovation,” Freedom to Tinker Blog (3/1/2010)
“Basic Data Format Lessons,” Freedom to Tinker Blog (3/2/2010)
“Labeling Dataset Contents,” Freedom to Tinker Blog (3/3/2010)
“Correcting Errors and Making Changes,” Freedom to Tinker Blog (3/8/2010)
“Best Practices for Government Datasets: Wrap-up,” Freedom to Tinker Blog (3/12/2010)
“Drafting Guidelines for Government Data Catalogs,” Sunlight Labs Blog (3/29/2010)