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The United States (Code) is on Github
Open government coders collaborate to liberate legislative data from Congress.
When Congress launched Congress.gov in beta, they didn’t open the data. This fall, a trio of open government developers took it upon themselves to do what custodians of the U.S. Code and laws in the Library of Congress could have done years ago: published data and scrapers for legislation in Congress from THOMAS.gov in the public domain….
Strata Week: The effort to digitize Palin's email archive
Dealing with Sarah Palin's emails, privacy legislation, and a new Hadoop competitor
In the latest Strata Week: Sarah Palin's 24,000-page email archive gets digitized, location tracking bills are proposed, and LexisNexis gets into the big data game with an alternative to Hadoop.
Advances, setbacks, and continuing impediments to government transparency
The good, the bad, and the edgy in open government at Computers, Freedom & Privacy.
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