Data and information organizations - Topics

The Government Publishing Office distributes the Congressional Record daily Professional bodies certify data managers for a credential nobody requires What does a chief data officer actually have authority over? Consortium licensing of journal databases prices out small institutions Research data centers charge for access and call it sustainability An open data office with no budget and no mandate Agencies charge for the data they were already paid to collect Revising a metadata standard is harder than revising the data it describes Industry associations publish data their members would rather keep private The library as a data organization: cataloging rules became linked data Funding a statistical agency through a political cycle Persistent identifiers survive a URL change and a server migration Standards bodies move slowly because consensus is the product Why do statistics agencies revise numbers that were already published? Who pays for maintaining an open dataset after the grant ends? National statistics offices are losing the survey response rates they were built on Statistical agencies audit each other's methods because nobody else can