Contract Language Examples

M-13-13 Open Data Policy—Managing Information as an Asset states that agencies must “create a process to engage with customers to help facilitate and prioritize data release.”

This section offers examples of public engagement and priortization methodologies and tools as inspiration for other agencies.

Public Feedback Resources

• Analyzing Who’s Using your Agency’s Data with FOIA requests – include this with note on FOIA Officers perhaps?
• Web Analytics - Join DAP today
• US Public Participation Playbook
• Open Data Guide: Engaging users in the data community
• User Research and The Paperwork Reduction Act: How to Get it Done webinar video.
• Usability.gov’s Guidance on The Paperwork Reduction Act

Public Engagement Tools

• Data.gov/Request
• HHS Demand Driven Open Data
• EPA Ideas for Apps
• Socrata Field Guide: Engage your community

Prioritization Resources

• DOT’s Model Data Inventory Approach - includes prioritization notes.
• Montgomery County’s Open Data Implementation Plan (see pg 41)
• Philadelphia’s pen Data Strategic Plan (cost/demand analysis)
• New York City Open Data Plan – a citywide release plan, but the criteria for how individual agencies prioritized is not clear.
• Open New York Open Data Handbook: Guidelines for Participating Agencies
• Data SF Resources - Strategic Plan
• Open Data Guide: Identifying data sets for public release
• Civic Commons: Open Data Priorities

Prioritization Tools

• Kickstart
• Azavea’s Open Data Race
• Ideascale