The Rhode Island Secretary of State's eGovernment and IT Division has released GovTracker services to facilitate free online access to XML-structured government data.
Thanks to the Government Open Code Collaborative for the link. I like the comment on this service by the GOCC's James Willis: 'It is simply unacceptable at this point in history that a citizen can use web services to track the movies he is renting, the weather around his house, and the books he's recently purchased but cannot as easily monitor data regarding the quality of his drinking water, legislation or regulations that will directly impact his work or personal life, what contracts are currently available to bid on for his state, or what crimes have recently occurred on his street....[GovTracker services is] a step towards resolving this dissonance.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/03/2005 10:06:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
