3: Priorities
Choose what data to publish. Other Information:
All data that can be shared with the public should be opened for public dissemination. Data should be published in compliance
with applicable laws and regulations, and only after addressing issues of security and privacy. First, publish all data that
is already available in other formats (such as print), or already being collected and shared with the public in other ways.
Publish both highly structured data and text documents. Publish laws, regulations and codes, and public documents related
to government agency mission, vision, values and goals. There are many standards for such documents (such as AIIM's emerging
Strategy Markup Language (StratML), XBRL and others). Use of standards enables stakeholders to easily discover and provide
feedback on items of interest to them. Creating and publishing new documents in various standard formats is easier than fixing
after the fact. As you create your documentation for the data, include and reference XML Schemas, DTDs and taxonomies. Explain
how to discover all of the files/documents in a collection. Use syndication standards and tools to announce additions or changes.
Provide complete documentation to enable automatically-generated data dictionaries and provide query services, which will
make it easier for the public to find your documents and datasets.
Objective(s):
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