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  1. OGD: Commerce repackages old data and offers broken links

    By Sarah Dorsey Jan 28, 2010 2:34 p.m.

    To comply with the Open Government Directive, the Commerce Department released four high value datasets that require considerable technical sophistication on the part of users--and patience. Some of the files are so large and cumbersome they're very difficult to open and use;  others require a great deal of explanation--and you can currently only find those explanations by digging through the agency's site. Still other entries feature broken links or only contain a fraction of the information described on Data.gov. The Commerce Department says they're working on all of these problems, so hopefully we'll see an improvement in the coming days.

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  2. OGD: Homeland Security (but really just FEMA)

    By Lisa Chiu Jan 22, 2010 6:31 p.m.

    Of the 27 offices within the Department of Homeland Security, DHS chose to release three high-value datasets from only one of them -- the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The new datasets are:

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  3. HHS releases Electronic Animal Drug Product Listing Directory

    By Bill Allison Jan 22, 2010 6:02 p.m.

    In 2007, Congress required the Food and Drug Administration to maintain an online database of drugs administered to animals, and get it online by June 2009. The Electronic Animal Drug Product Listing Directory does just that; this previously published data set (it's available on the FDA's site here) is one of the high value data sets released by the Department of Health and Human Services.

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  4. OGD: Transportation's tire rankings posted on Data.gov

    By Bill Allison Jan 22, 2010 4:23 p.m.

    It hasn't been officially branded a high value data set by the Dept. of Transportation yet, but the Uniform Tire Quality Grading System, which provides results on federally mandated tests done on tires by manufacturers to check for things like traction performance and tread wear, is on Data.gov now. (A number of stories have mentioned it though, including this one.)

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