One of the Open House Project’s recommendations was that Congress share its legislative data with the public in bulk and I’ve had a long history of posts on the subject. Over at the Free Gov info blog (link), Bob Tapella, Public Printer at the Government Printing Office, tells us that they are responding to this [...]

Two recommendations of our report have been moved forward in the FY09 omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 1105) which cleared the Senate yesterday and the House last month. The first recommendation in our chapter on legislative databases was that the Library of Congress make its bill status database directly available to the public and that the [...]

I’m ecstatic. All right, so this all goes back to late 2006, a bunch of people sitting at their computers writing some emails about what Congress should do with data. I distinctly remember Dan Newman and I both thinking that the Library of Congress should make its raw legislative database (that powers THOMAS) available directly [...]

I just got a copy of the prepared testimony from the GPO for today’s hearing in the legislative appropriations committee. (embedded below).

Notably, they discuss appropriations for the FDSYS system for digital government-wide documents access, and illustrate the efficiency that has come with digital technology. They also discuss web-harvesting, and the FDLP expenditures.
There’s a [...]

Is anyone familiar with FDsys being developed by the GPO? From the website:
The Office of the Chief Information Officer is working to develop GPO’s Digital Information System (FDsys). As outlined in the Strategic Vision, FDsys will allow federal agencies to easily create and submit content that can then be preserved, authenticated, managed and delivered [...]