Open Data

“Open data is fuel for innovators” – data.gov

Open Data Guidelines & Best Practices

• Sunlight Foundation Open Data Guidelines (archived website)
• resources.data.gov
• Project Open Data – federal guidelines (archive of old content)
• Open Data Commons – legal tools for open data

Recommended Books and Articles

• “Open Government – Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice”, Edited by Daniel Lathrop & Laurel Ruma, 2010
• The Open Data Handbook – guidelines for making your data open
• Open Government Data:  The Book

Open Data Portals

The following websites provide open data access for useful government information. Sites that are listed generally go beyond basic budget transparency and provide data sets that may be useful for understanding water use and natural resources, such as population estimates and spatial data sets. Some organizations provide many data sets while others are limited.

International Data

• World Bank

United States federal agencies & national portals

• Federal government – data.gov

Arizona

• AZGeo Data
• Arizona Geographic Information Council (AGIC)

California

• State of California open data portal

Colorado

• Colorado Information Marketplace – State of Colorado open data portal

Nebraska

• Nebraska Open Data – State of Nebraska open data portal

New Mexico

• New Mexico Environment Department
• New Mexico Office of the State Engineer Open Data

Oklahoma

• Oklahoma Open Data – State of Oklahoma open data portal

Texas

• State of Texas – State of Texas open data portal

Utah

• State of Utah – State of Utah open data portal

Wyoming

• Wyoming Geospatial hub – public geospatial data