A new effort from the General Services Administration will support governmentwide data interoperability and harmonization.
Building off data.gov, the U.S. Data Federation promotes common data formats, API specifications and metadata vocabularies that will allow federal, state and local government to pursue an interconnected data strategy. This unified data architecture will also allow the public a means to access and analyze data across government agencies.
"Promoting open data not only improves transparency and innovation throughout the government, it makes us more efficient and breaks down the silos, allowing us to deliver better products and services to the American people," said GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth in a news release. "The U.S. Data Federation is one of many initiatives the Obama administration has launched to support governmentwide data standardization and GSA is proud to be at the forefront of this critical effort to promote open data across all levels of government."
GSA's initiatives to develop reusable coordinating mechanisms, documentation and validation tools, plus data aggregation and curation capabilities are in support of the Open Government Plan to make federal procurement information easily accessible online for businesses, government agencies and the public.
More information on the U.S. Data Federation can be viewed at federation.data.gov.
