Open Government Directive Deadlines

= Introduction =

This page lists commitments by agencies, made in their Open Government Plans, to undertake further action.

OGD Plans And Deadlines By Agency
= U.S. Agency for International Development =

http://www.usaid.gov/open/USAIDOpenGovernmentPlan2010-04-07.pdf

p. 6 - 1.1.3 - High Value Data Not Yet Available: As part of its normal business, USAID generates both operational and programmatic data. Operational data sets, used as part of central planning, budget and reporting, are coordinated centrally. For USAID programmatic data - our future plans will address not only public access but also internal coordination to gather and standardize data from across the Agency's technical offices and country Missions.

p.8 - For data historically limited to internal agency use, USAID plans to provide the data while ensuring privacy, confidentiality, and security regulations are protected.

p. 9 - January 22, 2010 marked the official launch of Data.gov and the requirement for each agency to post three high-value datasets for public inspection. The datasets USAID posted are: 1) U.S. Official Development Assistance Data (place link here); 2) U.S. Trade Capacity Data (place line here); and 3) U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants.

p. 38 - At this time, April 7, 2010 is listed as the date when all government agencies must post their plans. We envision this as the beginning of an ongoing process whereby we more effectively take a participatory and collaborative approach to engaging with others about our international development work.

= U.S. Department of Agriculture =

http://www.usda.gov/open/Blog.nsf/archive?openview&amp;title=Plan&amp;type=cat&amp;cat=Plan&amp;sort=I

p. 45-75 – A calendar of new datasets and tools through January 2011 is available in Appendix C: Calendar of Proposed USDA Datasets 2010-2011.

July: 15 new data sets will be posted August: 16 September: 16 October: 4 November: 6 December: 4 January 2011: 1 p. 75 – A total of 11 new data sets are yet to be scheduled for posting in 2011.

pp. 46-78 April: *AMS Pesticide Data Program data 1992-2008 *ERS creative class county codes

May: *AMS Plant Variety Protection Office Certificate Search tool * ERS farm balance sheet data 1960-2003 *ERS farm income data 1910-2009 *ERS farm and cropland concentration measures *ERS Fruit and Tea Nuts Yearbook data tables *FNS National School Lunch Assistance Program Participation and Meals Served data in html and xls

June: *ANS Milk Marketing Order Statistics database search tool *FSA Sweetener Market Data Historical Stocks *FSA Sweetener Market Data Historical Production *FSA Sweetener Market Data Historical Imports and Exports *FSA Sweetener Market Data Historical Sales

= U.S. Department of Energy =

http://www.energy.gov/open/documents/DOE_OGI_Plan_07Apr2010.pdf http://www.energy.gov/open/documents/FINAL_DOE_OGPVer1-2b_07July2010.pdf

p. 54 - To date, the Department of Energy has met all of the Open Government Directive deadlines (Appendix B) p. 33 - EIA plans to post more High-Value Information and Datasets "in the future" (chart available of some data sets)  p. 39 - To enhance transparency, the Department of Energy plans to launch the FOIA Portal in Spring 2011. p. 34 - OSTI plans to post more High-Value Information and Datasets "in the future", including adding the Green Energy Data Service and publishing Comma-separated value (CSV) formats for other datasets (some listed in a chart on this page) p. 41 - Department of Energy plans to release the data set for its Computerized Accident and Incident Reporting System (CAIRS) in Fall 2010  p. 41 - The Department plans to release eDISS personnel security datasets on the length of time to process security clearances by Winter 2011

= U.S. Department of Education =

http://www.ed.gov/open/plan

p. 36 - ED Data Express is a web site designed to improve the public’s ability to access and explore high value State-level data collected by the Department’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE). As of ED's April 2010 plan release, the site was in the "final stages of development" and focuses mainly on data reported by States on key K-12 grant programs funded by OESE. OESE expected to launch the site internally in early June 2010 and launch the site publically by July 1, 2010 contingent upon final Departmental clearance and approval (p.28 of old plan). OESE now expects to launch the site during the Summer of 2010, contingent upon final Departmental clearance and approval

pp. 46-48: Datasets scheduled from the month of June listed


 * Original release schedule was "from 2/1/2010 to 6/30/2010," changed to " from June 1–30, 2010."
 * cache of original plan: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BdJjmTbjip0J:www2.ed.gov/about/plan.doc+Department+of+education+open+government+plan&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;client=ubuntu

p. 57: In the interest of transparency, the Department plans to make these data publicly available for the first time and will start by moving five data sets to Data.gov this fiscal year: 1) Annual list of schools in need of improvement since 2004–05; 2) Annual list of Districts in need of improvement since 2004–05; 3) Annual list of statewide assessment results in reading since 2003–04; 4) Annual list of statewide assessment results in mathematics since 2003–04; and 5) Annual list of district-level graduation rates reported under ESEA for 2006–07 and 2007–08.

= U.S. Department of Commerce =

http://open.commerce.gov/open-government-plan

pp. 6-27 - list of datasets and projects planned to be released

p. 12 - The ITA’s Free Trade Agreement Results Database will be available by the second half of 2010 (not available as of this time) p. 13 - In Fiscal Year (FY) 2010, NIST will implement a digital library repository. This repository will conform to the latest library and publishing metadata standards to enhance the ability of other scholarly and research repositories to discover and harvest information p. 14 - The Ocean Surface Current Simulator (OSCURS) tool will be made available by the end of calendar year 2010. p. 18 - Through its State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program, funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, NTIA awards financial assistance grants for broadband data collection and planning. Data will be displayed in NTIA’s national broadband map, which will be made publicly available by March 2011. p. 20 - The Office of Public Affairs, in conjunction with the Offices of Scheduling and Business Liaison, is planning to release the Commerce Secretary’s daily public schedule on either a daily or weekly basis. Commerce intends for this data to be as readable and as complete as possible. It is currently examining options for dealing with technical and managerial hurdles involved in regularly releasing this data, but plans to begin posting it on Commerce.gov and Data.gov by the end of 2010. p. 20 - One of the more widely requested methods of being more transparent involves streaming video of appropriate Commerce meetings for public viewing. While it would be prohibitively expensive to provide video access to all meetings that occur at Commerce on any given day, it is important to increase the extent to which streaming is currently employed. To do so, Commerce plans to meet core new media objectives relative to streaming meetings or events in 2011.

= U.S. Department of Defense =

http://open.dodlive.mil/open-government-plan/

p. 5 - ...we are carefully considering those datasets that have been a topic of interest in the past or seem most likely to be of interest and value to the public, the media, academics, the research and development community and open government advocates. We will also be soliciting suggestions from our own internal community, which have more detailed knowledge of possible datasets than any individual or organization. p. 9 - ...the Department is in the process of establishing an internal working group with representatives from across various Components to more fully and effectively support its future participation in Data.gov specifically, and Open Government in general.

p. 13-14 - Achieved Deadlines:


 * Convened Working Group (May 1, 2010)
 * Launched internal Working Group collaboration Web site (May 1, 2010)
 * Promulgated Data.gov submission process (July 1, 2010 - not verifiable)
 * Identified first set of additional high value datasets (July 1, 2010 - not verifiable)
 * Identify first set of new, previously unpublished datasets - August 1, 2010
 * Publish the next revision of our Open Government Plan - October 1, 2010

p. 14 - Future Deadlines: Identify first set of new, previously unpublished datasets (August 1, 2010); Publish the next revision of our Open Government Plan (October 1, 2010) p. 26 - In May 2010, the Department released its Spending Data Quality Plan, which is also available online at http://open.dodlive.mil/about/spending-data-quality

= U.S. Department of Health and Human Services =

http://www.hhs.gov/open/plan/opengovernmentplan/index.html

p. 2 - Creation of 9 Medicare claim “basic files,” one for each major category of health care service, to be released from September to December 2010 for free public download on Data.gov. The first of the claim “basic files” will be released in September 2010, and all 9 of them will be published by December 2010 (p. 24) p. 31 - Online publication of detailed Medicaid State Plan documents and amendments on the CMS website by the end of 2010  p. 31 - The release of new national, state, regional, and potentially county-level data on Medicare prevalence of disease, quality, costs, and service utilization, never previously published, as part of HHS’s Community Health Data Initiative by the end of 2010. p. 34 - Beginning in the 3rd quarter of 2010, on our Open Government website and through systematic dialogue with key stakeholder groups (overseen by our Data Council), we will solicit examples from the public of how our data has been used to generate benefit. We will seek to compile at least 30 such examples (insights, applications, visualizations, etc.) by the end of 2010 for publication on our Open Government website p. 34 - Will establish an online forum in the 3rd quarter of 2010 on our Open Government website that facilitates public discussion of barriers to innovation using our data (e.g., data format, lack of metadata, etc.)

p. 16 - Quarterly Open Government status reports to the public, published on our Open Government website, and soliciting public feedback and comment. The first report will happen in 3Q 2010, reporting on progress in 2Q. We commit to posting feedback on user comments 45 days after each quarterly report is issued, which will cover both user feedback on our status report as well as general comments received on our Open Government Plan since the last quarterly report p. 16 - Posting of our full 2010 HHS Strategic Plan, in which Open Government has been designated a key Secretarial priority, on our Open Government website in July 2010 for public comment  p. 16 - Will develop a menu of tools that HHSers can use to execute Participation and Collaboration initiatives (formally debuting in the 4th quarter of 2010)

p. 20 - HHS has decided to release 14 new high-value data sets and three new high-value tools on Data.gov by the end of 2010. Of the 14 new high-value data sets, 12 have never previously been available to the public in any form -- 10 data sets from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) alone. (The other two data sets are either online for the first time or downloadable in open format for the first time). The three tools – the CMS Dashboard, FDA-TRACK, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Dashboard – will be brand new. p. 20 - In addition to these 17 new data sets and tools, HHS will be posting more than 40 existing data sets and tools to Data.gov by the end of 2010 – data and tools which are already available online in some form but will be updated with respect to their content and formally registered on Data.gov p. 21 - After moving the Dashboard to full production mode, we plan to evolve and grow the Dashboard on an ongoing basis, adding more and more data and functionality – beginning with the next major release of the Dashboard in the fall of 2010  p. 24 - The process of compiling all plans and amendments, ensuring that they are complete and accurate, validating them with the states, and putting them online on the CMS website in a standard format should be completed by the end of 2010. p. 24 - New community-level indicators of health care cost, quality, and utilization, to be supplied by CMS to the new HHS Community Health Data Initiative by the end of 2010 p. 29 - FDA is planning to post new summary aggregate data resulting from the new Reportable Food Registry, beginning in the 4th quarter of FY 2010. The FDA Reportable Food Registry contains information about foods for which there is a reasonable probability that the article of food will cause serious adverse health consequences or death. p. 30 - In the 4th quarter of FY 2010, FDA also plans to enable the FDA Recalls website to provide drug, device, and food recall data in XML format to empower users to download, reuse or mash-up recall information. p. 30 - The Administration on Aging (AoA) will be posting a raw data set from the Annual National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants in the 4th quarter of FY 2010. This data has never been posted online in a downloadable format or otherwise been made available to the public as a data set p. 30 - The CDC will be posting a brand new data set on BioSense Condition-Specific Data in the 3rd quarter of 2010  p. 30 - The ONC is in the process of developing a comprehensive performance measurement system and corresponding performance dashboard (ONC Dashboard) for its activities and programshe beta version of the ONC Dashboard launched for public view before the end of 2010  p. 30 - CHART: "Timeline for Key Upcoming New Data Releases"  p. 43 - In late spring 2010, we are planning to unveil a weekly “Ask the Secretary” video feature where the Secretary will answer a few questions each week that exemplify the range and types of questions that we are receiving from the public via the mail, the phones and on our websites  p. 63 - The HHS menu of tools will exist on a “platform” that Community of Practice (CoP). It is our goal to have at least 10 active participation and collaboration projects present and running on the Community of Practice collaboration platform by the end of 2010 p. 65 - A “playbook” of policy actions and methods which are making CHDI successful will be developed and made widely available by October 2010

= U.S. Department of Homeland Security =

http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/open-government.shtm#imp p.16 - By October 1, 2010, the dhs.gov/open webpage will include direct links to component offices to ensure information is easily navigable for citizens seeking information about the Department. p. 32 - Timeline of Data Sets releases

= U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development =

http://portal.hud.gov/portal/page/portal/HUD/open/plan

p. 24 - HUD’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) will conduct a feasibility study that compares Data.gov’s Shared Data Storage Service, its own proprietary repository, and any other options that may support this initiative. Implementation of this initiative will be performed in a phased approach that will identify goals that can be realistically achieved in 6, 12, and 24 months. p. 31 - HUD will create a centralized and much more easily navigable website that utilizes an IdeaScale-like interface to allow the public to better engage with proposed rule changes.

= U.S. Department of the Interior =

http://www.doi.gov/open/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&amp;PageID=28151 p. 45 - DOI plans to have a citizen engagement tool ready for use within three to six months. p. 54 - Throughout the Summer of 2010 DOI will be piloting an automated tool to enhance discovery of and inventorying publicly available datasets for consideration of publishing through Data.Gov. This tool will identify potential data sets for consideration for publication in Data.Gov... DOI is targeting completion of a pilot of the automated tool within one bureau by the end of May 2010, with expanded use for the whole Department by August 2010. (Updated from April: The 30-day Pilot was an overall success and established a set of core metadata search, discovery, and reporting requirements that can be implemented and extended via IAT services)

= U.S. Department of Justice =

http://www.justice.gov/open/plan.html

p. 4 - The Dashboard will be an interactive Web site containing comprehensive data on FOIA compliance by 92 federal agencies.

p. 5 - The FOIA Dashboard will be launched in two key phases. In the first phase, the Department will develop the functionality of the Dashboard with 2009 FOIA data from 25 key executive departments, including DOJ. We estimate this will be completed in September 2010. The second phase, estimated to be completed by March 2011, will involve supplementing this initial data with the 2010 FOIA compliance data from all 92 federal agencies that report it.

p. 5 - Annual FOIA Reports are required to be submitted to the Attorney General by February 1 of each year. As agencies submit their final Annual FOIA Reports for Fiscal Year 2010, the Department will upload them into the Dashboard on a rolling basis.

p. 6 - Over the next year, we will launch the Dashboard and upload a full set of FOIA compliance data. We expect that the bulk of the work will be completed by March 2011. We will then assess whether there are any functionality or presentation improvements that should be made to the Dashboard, based on the public’s comments and available resources. After that time, we believe that the FOIA Dashboard should be readily sustainable, with updates each February when new Annual FOIA Reports are received.

pp. 34-35: A table of data set release dates:

July 2010:


 * Swiftness and Certainty in Enforcing Probation Conditions: Hawaii's H.O.P.E. Program
 * Test of the Efficacy of Court‐Mandated Counseling for Domestic Violence Offenders
 * Gender, Mental Illness, and Crime
 * Evaluating a Joint Police‐Social Service Program
 * Pennsylvania Task Force on Prison Overcrowding
 * Climate Correlates of Perceived Danger Among Federal Correctional Officers
 * Evaluation of Projects Supported by Byrne Memorial Funds
 * Reentry Mapping Network: An Action Research Partnership
 * Mandatory Custody Mediation
 * Exploring the Drugs/Crime Connection Within the Electronic Dance and Hip Hop Nightclub Scenes
 * Sexual Violence: Longitudinal, Multigenerational Evidence
 * Evaluation of a Multi‐Site Demonstration of Collaborations to Address
 * Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment
 * United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems
 * Florida Elder Abuse Survey
 * Experience of Violence in the Lives of Homeless Women

August 2010:


 * Death in Custody Reporting Program Statistical Table, 2007 (This data include Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data and access will be limited to approved investigators)
 * Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties, 2006

September 2010:


 * Jail Inmates at Midyear 2009 ‐‐ Statistical Tables
 * Mortality in Local Jails, 2000‐07 (This data include Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data and access will be limited to approved investigators)
 * Prison Inmates at Midyear 2009 ‐‐ Statistical Tables
 * Prisoners at Yearend, 2009‐Advance Counts
 * Census of Jail Facilities, 2006
 * Gang Units in Large Law Enforcement Agencies, 2007

October 2010:


 * Arrest Trends in the United States, 1980‐2008
 * Sexual Victimization Reported by Inmates in Prisons and Jails, 2008‐09‐‐Statistical Tables (This data include Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data and access will be limited to approved investigators)

November 2010:


 * Justice Employment and Expenditures, 2006
 * Death in Custody Reporting Program ‐‐ Statistical Tables (This data include Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data and access will be limited to approved investigators)

December 2010:


 * Public Contact with Police, 2008
 * State Prosecutors' Offices 2007
 * Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994 ‐‐ Statistical tables

January 2011:


 * Sheriffs' Offices, 2007
 * Jails in Indian Country, 2009
 * Capital Punishment, 2009

March 2011:


 * Criminal Victimization, 2009

= U.S. Department of Labor =

http://www.dol.gov/open/OGDplan.pdf

p.6 - Employees, stakeholders, and the general public were encouraged to provide their own ideas for open government at DOL via a General Services Administration provided platform: www.opendol.ideascale.com. We received 136 ideas through this process, which in turn received 1023 votes.

p. 7 - The full list of ideas were tagged by appropriate agency and forwarded for response. A full inventory of these ideas and responses will be posted to www.dol.gov/open by May 1, 2010.

p. 9 - ...we will track quantitative data in the following areas:

• Number of high-value datasets and tools published online; • Number of developers using our data; and • Number of specific public engagement opportunities

These reports will be provided on a quarterly basis on www.dol.gov/open beginning on June 30, 2010.

p. 12 - Though we have found an engaged audience through the use of a number of social media platforms, we currently do not have a DOL blog. Many other agencies have effectively used blogs to engage the public in conversations about key initiatives and invite meaningful feedback. We believe this is a missing piece in our comprehensive public communications strategy and one that should be addressed. Timeline for Action: May 2010

p. 24 - Publish 10 datasets or tools to Data.gov by the end of 2010 containing new publically available data. While we believe that our data publication efforts are best driven by the criteria above rather than sheer volume, we also feel it is important to set realistic goals to spur accountability in our transparency efforts. The following are examples of the types of data we will publish throughout the rest of 2010... EBSA Enforcement Data, OFCCP Enforcement Data, OSHA Health Sampling Data

pp. 24-25 - Publish 10 datasets or tools to Data.gov by the end of 2010 containing data previously available in other formats. We believe that transparency does not just mean publishing more data, but also publishing better data. To that end we will also focus our efforts on identifying information which is currently available on www.dol.gov which would be more valuable as a discrete dataset or tool on data.gov.

p. 28 - Create "Input and Feedback" page

p. 29 - Respond to specific ideas submitted to our OpenDOL platform. Ideas will be tagged by subject matter and routed to the appropriate agency subject matter experts for consideration. We will develop a web page on www.dol.gov/open that highlights the ideas we received, how we acted on them. Timeline for Action: May 2010

p. 29 - Create a central “Input and Feedback” page: While the Department currently provides a wide variety of opportunities for the public to provide feedback online, a user coming to www.dol.gov may have a difficult time knowing where to go to provide input on the issues that matters most to them, or may not even realize that opportunity exists. This page will provide a listing of all of the areas where the Department is accepting input such as Federal Register notices, Regulatory items open for comment, and scheduled web chats. Timeline for Action: May 2010

p. 29 - Create a “Developer’s Corner:” We plan to establish a “Developer Corner” on www.dol.gov/open that specifically targets and engages developers. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for developers to re-purpose our data, provide feedback, get technical help, bring developers with similar interests together and, ultimately inspire the best possible uses of our data for the benefit of the public. Ideas under consideration include a bug tracking system, RSS feeds for dataset changes, dataset versioning, public code competitions, data authentication, and an ideation platform to prioritize developer needs. Timeline for Action: July 2010

• Develop a Grants 2.0 Dashboard: Our newly launched grants map is just the first stage of a larger commitment to provide additional transparency into our grant making process and open up new avenues of collaboration through a grants dashboard. As we move forward with this project, additional features will display more granular data about grant activities by state, zip code, program, and budget year. This data will also be made available as raw datasets and provide users with unprecedented access to timely, searchable, downloadable, and visually interactive data. Our goal in this process in not simply to provide the public with better information about our grants, but rather to provide the public with additional opportunities to take part in the process of grant making itself. Timeline for Action: Multiple Phases in 2010 and 2011

p. 34 - Table of deadlines for actions

= U.S. Department of State =

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/139811.pdf

p. 10 - The Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) has the lead responsibility for coordinating the publication of data sets under this initiative. IRM, working with a number of key bureaus, is conducting and inventory over the next 90 days to identify data sets of interest to the public. All of the Department of State bureaus are asked to contribute data sets.

p. 24 - Release in the coming weeks a schedule for data sets, declassified information, and other information to be published for the balance of this fiscal year

= U.S. Department of Transportation =

http://www.dot.gov/open/pdf/DOT_Open_Gov_Plan_V1.1_04302010.pdf

p. viii - 2010-2012 – Phase One: This phase will occur within the next two years. The DOT will focus on foundational steps such as developing or fine-tuning policy, creating a data release process, integrating Open Government principles into existing governance bodies, and pursing initiatives that advance priority Open Government objectives, such as those highlighted above. 2012-2015 – Phase Two: The next iteration of the DOT Open Government Plan will be formally released on April 7, 2012. Phase two will occur after a mature foundation has been established. The DOT will focus on revisiting policies as appropriate, refining communication, outreach, and training efforts, refining initiatives, and developing new initiatives that further our Open Government objectives.

P. 23 - The DOT will complete a comprehensive Department-wide data inventory, to support the data set selection and release process, by September 30, 2010. After completing this inventory, the DOT will establish timelines for publication of appropriate information not yet available for download in open formats and set specific target dates for release. Once those target dates are formalized, they will be included in the next iteration of the DOT Open Government Plan'''. '''

= U.S. Department of the Treasury =

http://www.treasury.gov/open/docs/open_government_plan.pdf

p. 25 - By September 30, 2010, the Data and Information Identification, Integrity, and Partnerships subcommittee will have processes in place to:

• Identify high value datasets for publication, including high value information not yet available o Provide guidance on datasets to bureaus o Send quarterly request to bureaus/offices for new datasets via the mechanisms outlined in           Treasury’s Data Quality Plan o Work with the Communications subcommittee (as outlined below) to cull information and needs about potentially new datasets from internal and external stakeholders o Develop a master list of systems that collect information and evaluate for High Value datasets o Identify a minimum of three new datasets per quarter • Make available to all bureaus the Data Quality Plan including guidance for timely publication of      underlying data for public information maintained in electronic format • Identify key audiences for information and their needs, with a goal of publishing high value information for each of those audiences in the most accessible forms and formats

p. 27 - By September 30, 2010,the Data and Information Identification, Integrity, and Partnerships group will have processes in place to:

• Identify high value datasets for publication, including high value information not yet available o Provide guidance on datasets to bureaus o Send quarterly request to bureaus/offices for new datasets, e.g. email senior advisors for newly available data or reports o Work with the Communications subcommittee to cull information and needs about potentially new data sets from internal and external stakeholders. o Develop a master list of systems that collect information and evaluate for High Value datasets o Goal is to identify and publish a minimum of three new datasets per quarter • Provide a mechanism for timely publication of underlying data for public information maintained in electronic format

= U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs =

http://www4.va.gov/OPEN/docs/open_govt_plan.pdf

pp. 8-10: A checklist of promised agency initiatives

p. 19 - In June 2010, VA’s Open Government team and Data.gov team consulted VA’s FOIA officers to identify data sets and information to proactively disclose. By July 2010 a list of these data sets will be made available on the VA’s FOIA webpage. p. 23 - VA will enable Veterans to download their individual personal health record by creating a download function, or the blue button. In August 2010, we plan to deliver a prototype of the blue button where Veterans can download an easy to read document containing their name, address, phone numbers, prescriptions, and any self-entered data.

= U.S. Environmental Protection Agency =

http://www.epa.gov/open/EPAOpenGovernmentPlan.pdf

p. 16 - We are developing a Strategic Data Action Plan to establish and implement EPA’s processes to increase transparency by more systematically managing and disseminating information. The plan will establish governance mechanisms, processes and technologies to institutionalize the requirements of the OGD and this plan as they pertain to our data sets and tools.

p. 17 - dataset inventory: http://www.epa.gov/open/Data_Set_Inventory0625.pdf

Datasets scheduled to be released in 2010:


 * NHDPlus
 * Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF)
 * Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF)
 * Integrated Climate and Land Use Scenarios (ICLUS)
 * Green Vehicle Guide (more detail in plan)

p. 18 - The Strategic Action Plan will be available in FY2011. Specific milestones include the following:


 * Make 5 additional high value data sets available (Q3/Q4, FY 2010)
 * Publish the Strategic Data Action Plan (Q2, FY2011)
 * Make 5 additional high value data sets available (Q3/Q4, FY 2011)
 * Define processes to identify innovative uses of data (Q4, FY2010 &amp; Q1 FY2011)

= U.S. General Services Administration =

http://www.gsa.gov/graphics/admin/GSAOpenGov20100407.pdf

p. 8 - Create a Center of Excellence in social media and serve as the on-line government clearing house for leading practices and success cases in the use of social media throughout the government by June 15, 2010

p. 66 - GSA is using its existing IT governance groups to formally identify data sets. Under the GSA IT Executive Committee, the Enterprise Applications and Services Committee (EASC) and the Data Management Task Force have assumed responsibilities to identify and inventory agency applications and their data sets ... The initial reviews will be completed by September 30, 2010 but data sets will continue to be published in the future. pp. 69-70 - dataset relase schedule for 2010, no specific dates mentioned

= National Aeronautics and Space Administration =

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/440945main_NASA%20Open%20Government%20Plan.pdf

p. 10 - In 2010, our three key governance documents will be rewritten and updated:

-The NASA Governance and Strategic Management Handbook (NASA Policy Directive – NPD – 1000.0A). -The NASA Organization (NPD 1000.3D). -The NASA Strategic Plan (NPD 1001.0).

p. 11 - Publishing of 10 new high value data sets to Data.gov in 2010.

p. 28 - Three months

-Ensure Web site FOIA reading rooms are up to date by posting documents for which three or more requests have been made.

Six months

-Provide Web-based access to check the status of submitted requests through our FOIAExpress database.

One year

-Consolidate the 13 Agency electronic reading rooms into a one-stop location and refine the public indexing of documents. -Decrease by 10 percent the number of FOIA backlogs. -Decrease by 11 months the oldest backlog on file.

Two years

-Eliminate legacy FOIA database and become solely reliant on our newly procured Web-based database. -Create better user experience of reading rooms with integrated public accessibility of the Web-based FOIAExpress system. o Decrease by 10 percent the number of FOIA backlogs. o Decrease by 11 months the oldest backlog on file.

p. 33 - Three months

-Update the Office of Protective Services Web site, which includes information about our declassification programs and how to access declassified materials.

Six months

-Provide a process where the public can provide input on what types of information should be prioritized for declassification. -Continue to improve the Declassification process to better meet the needs of the public

pp. 53-54 Three Months

-Complete electronic records schedules for records in the remaining 5 percent systems and submit to NARA for approval. -Participate in NARA‘s ERA Pilot Phase 2. -Participate in NARA‘s Web 2.0 Study of agencies‘ use of social media technologies.

Six Months

-Update NASA Records Management public website to direct the public to the NASA FOIA process for obtaining NASA records not publicly available. -Cooperate with NARA on any ERA pilot activity follow-up.

One Year

-Work with NARA Electronic Records working group to understand potential improvements other agencies and organizations have implemented in their respective records management processes. -Continue use of ERA for conducting records management transactions, including transfer or NASA records to this agency charged with the capturing and preserving Federal government records for future generations.

Two Years

-Evaluate suitability of NARA working group recommendations, implement, if feasible, improved records management processes.

p. 38 - Three months

-Monitor and measure feedback from the Open Government Plan on Office of Procurement and Open Government, Financial Data Transparency, and Data.gov sections

Six months

-Develop new content and modify existing content based on public feedback. o Implement any additional OMB instructions as the directive is further defined.

One year

-Use a contest format to challenge NASA‘s procurement community to identify new information that could be shared with the public or better ways to share existing content. -Invite finalists to present their ideas at a NASA Procurement Leadership Forum where they will be recognized.

Two years

-Develop an on-line ―Best Practices guide for NASA procurement professionals that will continue to stimulate new sharing and presentation ideas. The intent is to excite new employees about this opportunity as well as to keep the intent of the President‘s Open Government Directive fresh in the minds of our community.

p. 51 - One year

-Provide live downlink of some ISS data as part of NASA exhibits.

p. 64 - Six months

-Improve NEN collaborative technology with new portal software. -Roll out five additional technical communities of practice in NEN. -Make NTRS visible and accessible to the public via Google Scholar. -Enable NTRS to be full-text searchable to better locate information.

Two years

-Improve NEN extranet capability to allow more external users from other government agencies, industry, and academia to participate in communities of practice. -Provide a new NTRS interface so information may more quickly be entered into the database, be more efficiently accessible and available for use by the public, and more easily harvested by the numerous entities that search for NASA‘s RandD information.

pp. 69-70 - Three months

-Release a Citizen Engagement Tool focused on soliciting ideas for NASA submissions for Data.gov. -Clarify strategy and process for submission of new datasets to Data.gov for NASA employees.

Six months

-Automate internal submission and review process for new datasets to Data.gov. -Assist in the creation of the Access and Utilization of NASA Science Data portal to access NASA‘s science data available for download

One year

-Release five new high-value datasets or information holdings to Data.gov that have never been released to the public before based on public consultation with a Citizen Engagement Tool. Upon release, we will issue a rationale for why it is high-value. -Participate in Access and Utilization of NASA Science Data workshops

Two years

-Release an additional five new high-value datasets or information holdings to Data.gov that have never been released to the public before based on public consultation with a Citizen Engagement Tool. Upon release of each dataset or information holding, we will issue a rationale for why it is high-value. -Partner with Office of Chief Technologist and Participatory Exploration Office to provide content for partnerships and challenges.

p. 77 - Three months

-Develop strategy and approach to interface more efficiently and effectively with the Federal Data.gov endeavor.

Six months

-Create a portal with access to all available science data from NASAScience Web site. -Identify opportunities across science data archive groups for enhancing connections and collaborations, both inside and outside NASA.

One year

-Convene one or more workshops involving NASA data archive specialists and stakeholders inside and outside NASA to explore opportunities for improving access to science data and engaging new audiences in the utilization.

Two years

-Partner with missions, Office of Chief Technologist, Participatory Exploration Office to provide content for partnerships and challenges that could use NASA science data as featured datasets.

p. 88 -Three Months -Obtain approval to use multiple public, open source development sites (e.g., SourceForge, GitHub) for hosting NASA open source software releases. -Establish tools to facilitate NASA open source release process (e.g., database of third-party libraries cleared for use by NASA software).

Six Months

-Establish opensource.nasa.gov Web site as a one-stop shop for NASA open source (e.g., policies, guidelines, process documents, project links), which will serve NASA developers, NASA software release authorities, and the public. -Implement all-electronic processes for handling third-party contributions (including electronic signature of contributor license agreement).

= National Science Foundation =

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10049/nsf10049.pdf

p. 11 - Responsibility for ensuring transparency at the NSF rests with the NSF Open Government Directive Working Group (OGD‐WG) and with the NSF Senior Management Advisory Roundtable (SMART)... Within 60 days, the OGD-WG will complete a new inventory of data collected or generated by NSF, building on eGov content inventory, found at http://www.nsf.gov/policies/egov_inventory.jsp http://www.nsf.gov/policies/egov_inventory.jsp, and records retention schedule, found at http://www.nsf.gov/policies/records/index.jsp http://www.nsf.gov/policies/records/index.jsp.

p. 12 - Additionally, NSF will look into opportunities to provide additional high‐value data through Data.gov based on input received from the public.

p. 14 - NSF is developing a new “Science and Innovation” resource on Research.gov that will make a collection of information describing the outcomes and impacts of NSF‐ supported research and education projects available to the public... Science and Innovation is expected to be released by June 2010.

p. 23 - FOIA data are currently available at http://www.nsf.gov/policies/foia.jsp covering the fiscal years 1998 through 2009 and are available in DOC, HTML, PDF and TXT formats. As part of the initial dataset population, in response to the Open Government Directive, the NSF has made available the FY2009 data in XML open standard format. Currently, the plans are to convert the existing datasets, FY1998‐FY2009, to XML and provide access via www.data.gov and http://www.nsf.gov/open/. It is anticipated this will be completed during FY2010.

p. 25 - NSF is preparing to launch Science360.gov, a new multimedia Web portal devoted to science, technology and engineering. Content on the site will include extensive collections of audio and video materials, images and articles... The Science360.gov Web site is expected to launch in mid‐2010.

= Nuclear Regulatory Commission =

http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/open/philosophy/nrc-open-gov-plan.pdf

Table 2 in Appendix C: Publication Schedule for Additional High-Value Datasets


 * Emergency Preparedness: Two-Year Schedule of Exercises (July 30, 2010, and as needed)
 * New Reactors: License Application Schedule (July 30, 2010, and monthly thereafter)
 * New Reactors: Expected License Applications (July 30, 2010, and monthly thereafter)
 * Nuclear Materials: Licensing Actions Received (September 30, 2010, and monthly thereafter)
 * Uranium Recovery Facilities: Applications in Review (September 30, 2010, and annually thereafter)
 * Uranium Recovery Facilities: Letters of Intent form Applicants/Licensees (September 30, 2010, and annually thereafter)
 * Uranium Enrichment Facilities: Estimated Schedules for License Applications (September 30, 2010, and quarterly thereafter)
 * Spent Fuel Storage: Estimated Schedule of Licensing Actions (September 30, 2010, and quarterly thereafter)
 * Operating Reactor Event Reports (September 30, 2010, and monthly thereafter)
 * Fire Event Data from Licensee Event Reports (September 30, 2010, and semiannually thereafter)
 * Fire Inspection Findings from January 2000 to December 2008 (September 30, 2010, and semiannually)
 * Waste Incidental to Reprocessing Program (Monitoring and Annual Reports) (September 30, 2011, and annually thereafter)
 * Materials Environmental Reviews Under the National Environmental Policy Act (September 30, 2011, and annually thereafter)

Table 3 in Appendix C: Publication Schedule for Datasets that Provide Underlying Data Related to Already Published Data


 * Operating Reactors Performance Indicators (September 30, 2010, and monthly thereafter)
 * Nuclear Power Plan Inspection Reports (December 31, 2010, and daily thereafter)
 * Reactor Materials Embrittlement Database (July 30, 2011, and annually thereafter)
 * Generic Safety Issues (September 30, 2011, and annually thereafter)

Appendix D: NRC Open Government Milestone Table


 * Make available a new Web-based Google search tool for NRC's public documents in ADAMS (September 30, 2010)
 * Institutionalize a process for identifying, prioritizing, and publishing the NRC's high-value data-sets in open format, taking into account the public's input on the types of data that would be of value, and ensuring that appropriate information security reviews are completed before publication (October 31, 2010)

contains the high-value datasets the NRC plans to publish between the release date of this plan and September 30, 2011. The agency will publish each, along with a data dictionary, in open format on the NRC’s public Web site, and they will also be available through Data.gov.

p. 15 - As of May 2010, the NRC will double the annual number of public meetings it will broadcast "live" using Webstreaming via internet, from 50 to 100. Of these, 50 will be public Commission meetings and 50 will be other meetings that are identified as having significant public interest. The expansion of Webstreaming will also increase the number of meeting rooms at NRC Headquarters equipped for Webstreaming from 1 to 4, enabling up to 4 meetings to be streamed simultaneously.

= U.S. Office of Personnel Management =

http://www.opm.gov/open/includes/OPM%20Open%20Government%20Plan_v1.1.pdf

pp. 16-18 We are working on making four other kinds of retirement data available on July 31, 2010:

• Employee Annuitants Added to the Retirement Roll for the fiscal years 2006-2008 (three data sets) • Employee Annuitants on the Retirement Roll, three data sets for the same years • Survivor Annuitants Added to the Retirement Roll, also for fiscal years 2006-2008; and • Survivor Annuitants on the Retirement Roll, again for those three years.

For each of the five kinds of data, we plan to make the fiscal year 2009 data available on September 30, 2010, and we will post new data sets every year thereafter. Retirement and benefits information and statistics are of interest not only to NARFE, but also to other agencies and the general public.

= U.S. Small Business Administration =

http://www.sba.gov/idc/groups/public/documents/sba_homepage/sba_open_gov_plan.html

-The agency plans to utilize its web presence to provide a resource that will serve as an interactive organization chart - a mechanism for members of the public to search for an SBA employee by name, and/or browse a phone directory listing by office or SBA resource.

-A three-pronged approach will inventory existing information resources, identify gaps and enhancements, and publish new or improved datasets. Data review procedures have been drafted and are coordinated with processes incorporated in SBA’s Data Quality Plan (currently under development)... SBA plans to incorporate the elements of discovery, improvement and review to enhance the value of publicly available datasets:


 * The agency will require that each program office catalog currently available public data in a central repository. This will help identify gaps in terms of missing or erroneous data.


 * The agency will incorporate public requests for new data, and review and prioritize comments via public engagement tools to identify new or improved datasets. The agency can leverage existing SBA outreach channels to engage stakeholders to identify useful data (both existing and proposed).


 * The agency will regularly review all comments related to new, improved or existing data to identify gaps and enhancements, and prioritize opportunities for improvements against agency infrastructure, resources and benefits.


 * The agency will establish quarterly meetings to review agency progress and establish action items; establish an internal portal to manage data inventory and new submissions; and provide online orientation to allow offices to understand Open Government Directive goals and agency priorities.

= U.S. Social Security Administration =

http://www.ssa.gov/open/10-380%20OGP-2%20copy.pdf

Appendix B, Table 1: Transparency Milestones and Completion Dates


 * Conduct inventory of high value information and datasets (target completion date 9/2010)
 * Post at least five new high value datasets/information holding to Data.gov in 2010 (projected completion date 12/2010)
 * Post five additional new high value datasets to Data.gov (projected completion date 9/2011)
 * Review publicly available information to assure appropriate format -- will be done with Social Security's annual certification and review 12/2010
 * Unclear: provide reporting contract data to FPDS -- TBD
 * Migrate to a new grants management system, which includes FFATA reporting capabilities and, thereby, report via the DSVT (10/2010)
 * Deliver mandatory and entitlement payment data for 2007-2009 in the new FAADS Plus data format (September 2010)

Appendix B, Table 2: Participation and Collaboration Milestones and completion dates


 * Post information about FACA groups online (5/2010)
 * Make decision on posting list of national public meetings held by agency (6/2010)
 * Annual Performance Plan reflects open government activities (2011)

= Council for Environmental Quality =

http://www.whitehouse.gov/open/around/eop/ceq/plan

-of April 27, 2010, CEQ had posted two data sets on Data.gov, with additional data sets being processed for posting. CEQ also had posted 18 documents on Regulations.gov—17 notices and one proposed rule. Although four of the postings solicit comments, they require comments in writing or submission through the CEQ website.

- Continue to expand the “CEQ Proactive Disclosure Reading Room.” IN PROGRESS

- Work with the CEQ Records and FOIA Officer to add information about meeting existing records management requirements, FOIA request procedures, and Congressional requests for information. In addition, post CEQ public records from its inception 40 years ago. IN PROGRESS

-CEQ commits to remain alert to new high value data sets that may emerge from the program in order to share them with the public.


 * Federal GHG protocol: The Sustainability E.O. requires CEQ and OMB to issue a Federal protocol for measuring and reporting GHG pollution as guidance, based on recommendations developed by an interagency working group led by DOE. As a part of the review process, CEQ will work with OMB to integrate a public comment period into the review process, both to exhibit transparency and to broaden participation. * Federal GHG inventory: In 2011, the Federal government will publish, for the first time, a Federal GHG inventory. This inventory will be updated annually to report on progress towards meeting the GHG pollution reduction targets set by the Sustainability E.O. * Agency Scorecards: CEQ will work with OMB to complete and publish annual scorecards on agency performance toward meeting the E.O. goals. These goals were included in the Analytical Perspectives published with the President’s 2011 Budget. * Report to the President: Every two years, CEQ’s Office of the Federal Environmental Executive will produce and publish a Report to the President on the status of agency efforts. This report will be made available to the public online through the CEQ and FedCenter web sites.

= Office of Management and Budget =

http://www.whitehouse.gov/open/around/eop/omb/plan

-OMB will continue to publish congressional earmarks contained in appropriations bills. In mid-April 2010, Fiscal Year 2010 enacted appropriations earmarks will be published. OMB will continue to track and publish congressional earmarks for Fiscal Year 2011 and subsequent fiscal years. The information will be published in machine-readable formats and available at earmarks.gov and Data.gov. In the Spring following each Fiscal Year end, OMB will collect earmark recipient/beneficiary information from agencies and publish this data on earmarks.gov in the Summer.

-OMB will extend its data inventory to include the information underlying published documents, and will publish the underlying data to the extent feasible. As an initial response, OMB will take steps toward publishing the detailed databases underlying the President’s Budget:


 * The final database tables used to produce the President’s Budget * The Budget Appendix in XML format OMB will continue to identify and release high-value information, and to promulgate these datasets through Data.gov. To support these objectives, we have begun development of an agency-wide data inventory. Key milestones are: * April 15, 2010 - Inventory of high-value datasets * April 30, 2010 - Assessment and action plan * May 31, 2010 - Broader inventory of OMB datasets

-Each page on OMB’s website will incorporate, by September 2010, an application to engage the public that allows for public input into the data presented. This step would mark a significant expansion of public input to OMB.

= Office of National Drug Control Policy =

http://www.whitehouse.gov/open/around/eop/ondcp/plan

-improve transparency, ONDCP intends to make available online:


 * Within three months (July 7, 2010): o An enhanced ONDCP blog with 2-4 posts per week about ongoing activities, data and research, or emerging drug control issues; o Information about each of the Agency’s three signature initiatives and why each is important to American citizens; o Updated staffing list of Agency leadership, including instructions for how to contact them; and o A current organizational chart with descriptions of each of the Agency’s components.
 * Within six months (October 7, 2010): o An interactive calendar of upcoming public briefings, news conferences, and events; and o A complete listing of all ONDCP-funded Drug Free Community grantees, including contact information (available in a machine readable format). * Within one year (April 7, 2011): * Congressional reports and other progress updates that provide information about ongoing ONDCP activities and programs.

-ONDCP plans to make more high-value data available. ONDCP is in the process of reviewing Agency data and developing lists of data for possible public release.

-Beginning in April 2010, a committee of senior ONDCP officials meets monthly to review available data, identify any relevant security concerns, develop processes for converting data into accessible formats, and schedule the release of new data sets. The selection of data for public release will concentrate on information that will increase accountability and openness, improve the public’s knowledge of Agency operations, further ONDCP’s core mission, promote economic opportunity, and respond to a public or partner need

Within 6 months (October 7, 2010), make available online the ONDCP policy for declassifying information

= Office of Science and Technology Policy =

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/100407-ostp-opengov-plan.pdf

-Per the Open Government Directive, we have also published on Data.gov new high-value data sets pertaining to Federal spending on R&amp;D that resulted from our inter-agency collaborations. We will continue to publish this budget-related information online in open, machine-readable, downloadable formats.

-Currently, two years (FY2009 and FY2010) of budget numbers are being posted, but additional information going back 15 years will be posted by April 15, 2010.

= Office of the United States Trade Representative =

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/100407-ustr-opengov-plan.pdf

-Proposed New Data Sets: USTR has identified high-value information not previously available and established target dates for posting.


 * All Free Trade Agreements (FTA) are posted in their entirety. As these are written as legal documents, they do not readily lend themselves to use by the general public, especially businesses seeking information as to how particular agreements affects the products and services they would like to sell to the partner countries. Therefore, we are working on a pilot project to post “plain English” summaries of the agreements in an open government format along with the associated country tariff schedules as datasets. The latter are especially high value as USTR receives numerous calls for information that would now be readily available and downloadable. There are 23 tariff schedules of almost 30,000 lines of data each. Target for completion is December 31, 2010. (Date changed in new version to December 31, 2011. Also added explanation of steps to make FTAs available).

-USTR will immediately begin publishing each incoming Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and its response. USTR will publish past FOIAs and associated responses of special interest to the public. USTR has established a 60-day target for publishing past FOIA responses requested by the public. (Updated report changes target data to February 1, 2011. Also limited scope of past request to 2007 forward).

Develop standard metrics (to measure success of efforts to engage the public) (September 30, 2010).

OGD Deadlines by Date
April 15, 2010: 

Office of Management and Budget:


 * Publish Fiscal Year 2010 enacted appropriations earmarks Office of Science and Technology Policy
 * Earmarks posted: http://earmarks.omb.gov/earmarks-public/

Office of Science and Technology Policy:


 * Currently, two years (FY2009 and FY2010) of budget numbers are being posted, but additional information going back 15 years will be posted by April 15, 2010.

April 20, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Homeland Security: (deadline passed - release dates not posted) 


 * Publish pipeline of release dates for DHS datasets to Data.gov on the DHS transparency website&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" /&gt;

April 30, 2010: 

U.S. Department of the Treasury:


 * Treasury will submit the first cut of its Open Government Data Quality Plan in April 2010. This document will describe the current processes used within Treasury to ensure the data quality of the information posted online, with an emphasis on the contracts and grants data on USASpending.gov. The Data Quality Plan will also lay out the actions Treasury plans to take to improve the quality of Treasury data released to the public.

U.S. Department of Agriculture: 

pp. 46-78:


 * AMS Pesticide Data Program data 1992-2008
 * ERS creative class county codes

May 1, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Labor:


 * pp. 6-7 - Employees, stakeholders, and the general public were encouraged to provide their own ideas for open government at DOL via a General Services Administration provided platform: www.opendol.ideascale.com. We received 136 ideas through this process, which in turn received 1023 votes ... The full list of ideas were tagged by appropriate agency and forwarded for response. A full inventory of these ideas and responses will be posted to www.dol.gov/open by May 1, 2010.

May 15, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Homeland Security:


 * Register one additional DHS dataset to Data.gov: USCIS FOIA Requests

May 20, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Labor:


 * Create "Input and Feedback" page (p. 28)

May 31, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Labor:


 * p. 29 - Launch a DOL blog Nuclear Regulatory Commission:
 * p. 29 - Respond to specific ideas submitted to our OpenDOL platform. Ideas will be tagged by subject matter and routed to the appropriate agency subject matter experts for consideration. We will develop a web page on www.dol.gov/open that highlights the ideas we received, how we acted on them. Timeline for Action: May 2010
 * p. 29 - Create a central “Input and Feedback” page.

U.S. Department of Agriculture: 

pp. 46-78:


 * AMS Plant Variety Protection Office Certificate Search tool
 * ERS farm balance sheet data 1960-2003
 * ERS farm income data 1910-2009
 * ERS farm and cropland concentration measures
 * ERS Fruit and Tea Nuts Yearbook data tables
 * FNS National School Lunch Assistance Program Participation and Meals Served data in html and xls

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:


 * p. 43 - In late spring 2010, we are planning to unveil a weekly “Ask the Secretary” video feature on www.hhs.gov/open where the Secretary will answer a few questions each week that exemplify the range and types of questions that we are receiving from the public via the mail, the phones and on our websites.

U.S. Social Security Administration:


 * Appendix B, Table 2: Participation and Collaboration Milestones and completion dates Post information about FACA groups online

June 15, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Homeland Security:


 * Register one additional DHS datasets to Data.gov: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL)

U.S. General Services Administration:


 * Create a Center of Excellence in social media and serve as the on-line government clearing house for leading practices and success cases in the use of social media throughout the government by June 15, 2010

June 30, 2010: (deadline passed - quarterly reports not posted)

U.S. Department of Labor: 


 * Begin publishing reports to www.dol.gov/open on a quarterly basis on:
 * Number of high-value datasets and tools published online;
 * Number of developers using our data; and
 * Number of specific public engagement opportunities

These reports will be provided on a quarterly basis on www.dol.gov/open beginning on June 30, 2010.

U.S. Department of Agriculture: 

pp. 46-78:


 * ANS Milk Marketing Order Statistics database search tool
 * FSA Sweetener Market Data Historical Stocks
 * FSA Sweetener Market Data Historical Production
 * FSA Sweetener Market Data Historical Imports and Exports
 * FSA Sweetener Market Data Historical Sales

U.S. Department of Education: (original deadline passed - datasets not posted) (deadline changed)


 * 2008-09 Common Core of Data Elementary and Secondary Education School level nonfiscal data file [Format: tab-separated values text files (.txt)]


 * 2008-09 Common Core of Data Elementary and Secondary Education Agency (school district) level nonfiscal data file [Format: tab-separated values text files (.txt)]


 * 2008-09 Common Core of Data Elementary and Secondary Education State level nonfiscal data file [Format: tab-separated values text files (.txt)]


 * Fiscal Year 2008 Common Core of Data Elementary and Secondary Education State Fiscal (National Public Education Finance Survey) data file [Format: tab-separated values text files (.txt)]


 * 2007-08 Common Core of Data Elementary and Secondary Education State level dropout and graduation data file [Format: tab-separated values text files (.txt)]


 * 2007-08 Common Core of Data Elementary and Secondary Education Agency (school district) level dropout and graduation data file [Format: tab-separated values text files (.txt)]


 * Final revised 2007-08 Common Core of Data Elementary and Secondary Education State level nonfiscal data file [Format: tab-separated values text files (.txt)]
 * Fall 2008 Integrated Postsecondary Data system (IPEDS) Enrollments [Format: csv files]: o Enrollments by race/ethnicity, gender, attendance status, and level of student o Enrollments by age category, gender, attendance status, and level of student o Enrollments by residence and migration of first-time freshman Enrollments by total entering class and retention rate o Major field of study, race/ethnicity, gender, attendance status, and level of student 2008 o Total entering class and retention rates


 * 2008 Integrated Postsecondary Data system (IPEDS) Graduation Rates for the 2002 Cohort at 4 year institutions and the 2005 cohort at 2 year institutions and less than 2 year institutions [Format: csv files]: o Graduation rate data for cohort year 2002 (4-year) and cohort year 2005 (2-year) institutions o Graduation rate data for cohort year 2005 (less-than-2-year institutions)


 * Fiscal Year 2008 Integrated Postsecondary Data system (IPEDS) Financial statistics [Format csv files]: o Public institutions - GASB 34/35 o Public institutions - GASB 34/35 (Component units using FASB) o Public institutions - GASB 34/35 (Component units using GASB) o Private not-for-profit institutions or Public institutions using FASB o Private for-profit institutions


 * Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS) 2004 cohort of entering students as of 2009: o Create tables and graphs quickly and efficiently using Quick Stats [Data tool] o Create complex tables and run linear &amp; logistic regressions using DAS 2.0 [Data tool]


 * Fast Response Survey System (FRSS89) Technology-based Distance Education for Public Elementary and Secondary School Students, 2004-05 [Format: ASCII flat file] * Fast Response Survey System (FRSS92) Educational Technology in U.S. Public Schools, Fall 2008 [Format: ASCII flat file] * Fast Response Survey System (FRSS93) Educational Technology in Public School Districts, Fall 2008 [Format: ASCII flat file] * Fast Response Survey System (FRSS 95) Teachers' Use of Educational Technology in U.S. Public Schools [Format: ASCII flat file] * Fast Response Survey System (FRSS 96) Alternative Schools and Programs for Students At Risk of Educational Failure, 2007-08 [Format: ASCII flat file]

June 31, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Agriculture:


 * Make available a calendar of new datasets and tools through December 2010

National Science Foundation: (deadline passed - “Science and Innovation” resources not posted)


 * Release a new “Science and Innovation” resource on Research.gov that will make a collection of information describing the outcomes and impacts of NSF‐supported research and education projects available to the public
 * launch Science360.gov, a new multimedia Web portal devoted to science, technology and engineering containing extensive collections of audio and video materials, images and articles

U.S. Department of State


 * Release in the coming weeks [after April 7, 2010, the date of the plan's publication] a schedule for data sets, declassified information, and other information to be published for the balance of this fiscal year

July 1, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Education:


 * Publically launch ED Data Express, a web site designed to improve the public’s ability to access and explore high value State-level data collected by the Department’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE)

U.S. Department of Defense:


 * Identify first set of additional high value datasets

 

July 7, 2010: 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration:

p. 28 - Three months (after ODG publication - April 7, 2010)

-Ensure Web site FOIA reading rooms are up to date by posting documents for which three or more requests have been mad

pp. 69-70 - Three months

-Release a Citizen Engagement Tool focused on soliciting ideas for NASA submissions for Data.gov.

Office of National Drug Control Policy


 * Within three months (July 7, 2010):

o An enhanced ONDCP blog with 2-4 posts per week about ongoing activities, data and research, or emerging drug control issues; o Information about each of the Agency’s three signature initiatives and why each is important to American citizens; o Updated staffing list of Agency leadership, including instructions for how to contact them; and o A current organizational chart with descriptions of each of the Agency’s components.

July 15, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Homeland Security:


 * Register FEMA Public Assistance Funded Projects Detail

July 30, 2010: 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission:

Table 2 in Appendix C: Publication Schedule for Additional High-Value Datasets:


 * Two-Year Schedule of Emergency Preparedness Exercises (as needed)
 * Application Schedule for New Reactors (monthly)
 * Expected New Nuclear Power Plant Applications (monthly)

U.S. Department of Commerce:


 * p. 12 - The ITA’s Free Trade Agreement Results Database will be available by the second half of 2010 (not available as of this time)

U.S. Department of Homeland Security: 


 * p. 32 - Complete second round review of DHS datasets based on public comments, DHS IdeaFactory, and additional business owner assessments of datasets; update pipe line for dataset release at DHS transparency website.

July 31, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs:


 * p. 19 - In June 2010, VA’s Open Government team and Data.gov team consulted VA’s FOIA officers to identify data sets and information to proactively disclose. By July 2010 a list of these data sets will be made available on the VA’s FOIA webpage.

Office of Personnel Management:


 * making four kinds of retirement data available:
 * Employee Annuitants Added to the Retirement Roll for the fiscal years 2006-2008 (three data sets)
 * Employee Annuitants on the Retirement Roll, three data sets for the same years
 * Survivor Annuitants Added to the Retirement Roll, also for fiscal years 2006-2008; and
 * Survivor Annuitants on the Retirement Roll, again for those three years.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:


 * p. 16: Posting of our full 2010 HHS Strategic Plan, in which Open Government has been designated a key Secretarial priority, on our Open Government website in July 2010 for public comment

U.S. Department of Justice:

p. 34: scheduled dataset relases:


 * Swiftness and Certainty in Enforcing Probation Conditions: Hawaii's H.O.P.E. Program
 * Test of the Efficacy of Court‐Mandated Counseling for Domestic Violence Offenders
 * Gender, Mental Illness, and Crime
 * Evaluating a Joint Police‐Social Service Program
 * Pennsylvania Task Force on Prison Overcrowding
 * Climate Correlates of Perceived Danger Among Federal Correctional Officers
 * Evaluation of Projects Supported by Byrne Memorial Funds
 * Reentry Mapping Network: An Action Research Partnership
 * Mandatory Custody Mediation
 * Exploring the Drugs/Crime Connection Within the Electronic Dance and Hip Hop Nightclub Scenes
 * Sexual Violence: Longitudinal, Multigenerational Evidence
 * Evaluation of a Multi‐Site Demonstration of Collaborations to Address
 * Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment
 * United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems
 * Florida Elder Abuse Survey
 * Experience of Violence in the Lives of Homeless Women

U.S. Department of Labor: 

p. 29 - Create a “Developer’s Corner” on www.dol.gov/open that specifically targets and engages developers.

August 1, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Defense:


 * Identify first set of new, previously unpublished datasets

August 15, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Homeland Security:


 * Register one additional DHS dataset to Data.gov: NBIC Health Security Index

August 31, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Justice:

p. 34: scheduled dataset relases:


 * Death in Custody Reporting Program Statistical Table, 2007 (This data include Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data and access will be limited to approved investigators)
 * Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties, 2006

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs:


 * p. 23 - VA will enable Veterans to download their individual personal health record by creating a download function, or the blue button. In August 2010, we plan to deliver a prototype of the blue button where Veterans can download an easy to read document containing their name, address, phone numbers, prescriptions, and any self-entered data.

Summer 2010:

U.S. Department of the Interior: 

p. 54 - Throughout the Summer of 2010 DOI will be piloting an automated tool to enhance discovery of and inventorying publicly available datasets for consideration of publishing through Data.Gov. This tool will identify potential data sets for consideration for publication in Data.Gov... DOI is targeting completion of a pilot of the automated tool within one bureau by the end of May 2010, with expanded use for the whole Department by August 2010. (Updated from April: The 30-day Pilot was an overall success and established a set of core metadata search, discovery, and reporting requirements that can be implemented and extended via IAT services) 

Fall 2010:

U.S. Department of Energy


 * p. 41 - Department of Energy plans to release the data set for its Computerized Accident and Incident Reporting System (CAIRS) in Fall 2010

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: 

p. 21 - Next major release of the CMS Dashboard in the fall of 2010

September 15, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Homeland Security:


 * Register one additional DHS dataset to Data.gov: NBIC Health Security Scoring

September 30, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:


 * Post new FDA summary aggregate data resulting from the new Reportable Food Registry
 * Enable the FDA Recalls website to provide drug, device, and food recall data in XML format
 * Release first of 9 Medicare claim “basic files,” one for each major category of health care service for free public download on Data.gov
 * p. 34 - Beginning 3Q 2010, on our Open Government website and through systematic dialogue with key stakeholder groups (overseen by our Data Council), we will solicit examples of how our data has been used to generate benefit. We will seek to compile at least 30 such examples (insights, applications, visualizations, etc.) by the end of 2010 for publication on our Open Government website. This will help us shape our future data release strategy on an ongoing basis.
 * p. 34 - Will establish an online forum in the 3rd quarter of 2010 on our Open Government website that facilitates public discussion of barriers to innovation using our data (e.g., data format, lack of metadata, etc.)
 * p. 16 - Quarterly Open Government status reports to the public, published on our Open Government website, and soliciting public feedback and comment. The first report will happen in 3Q 2010, reporting on progress in 2Q. We commit to posting feedback on user comments 45 days after each quarterly report is issued, which will cover both user feedback on our status report as well as general comments received on our Open Government Plan since the last quarterly report
 * p. 30 - The CDC will be posting a brand new data set on BioSense Condition-Specific Data in the 3rd quarter of 2010

U.S. Department of Homeland Security:


 * p. 32 - Publish DHS Data.gov plan for FY2011 on DHS transparency website
 * p. 32 - Register one additional DHS dataset to Data.gov U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: USCG Port State Information Exchange

National Science Foundation:


 * convert the existing FOIA datasets, FY1998‐FY2009, to XML and provide access via www.data.gov and http://www.nsf.gov/open/

Nuclear Regulatory Commission:

Table 2 in Appendix C: Publication Schedule for Additional High-Value Datasets:


 * Nuclear Materials: Licensing Actions Received (September 30, 2010, and monthly thereafter)
 * Uranium Recovery Facilities: Applications in Review (September 30, 2010, and annually thereafter)
 * Uranium Recovery Facilities: Letters of Intent form Applicants/Licensees (September 30, 2010, and annually thereafter)
 * Uranium Enrichment Facilities: Estimated Schedules for License Applications (September 30, 2010, and quarterly thereafter)
 * Spent Fuel Storage: Estimated Schedule of Licensing Actions (September 30, 2010, and quarterly thereafter)
 * Operating Reactor Event Reports (September 30, 2010, and monthly thereafter)
 * Fire Event Data from Licensee Event Reports (September 30, 2010, and semiannually thereafter)
 * Fire Inspection Findings from January 2000 to December 2008 (September 30, 2010, and semiannually)
 * Waste Incidental to Reprocessing Program (Monitoring and Annual Reports) (September 30, 2011, and annually thereafter)
 * Materials Environmental Reviews Under the National Environmental Policy Act (September 30, 2011, and annually thereafter)

Table 3 in Appendix C: Publication Schedule for Datasets that Provide Underlying Data Related to Already Published Data:


 * Operating Reactors Performance Indicators (September 30, 2010, and monthly thereafter)

Appendix D: NRC Open Government Milestone Table:


 * Make available a new Web-based Google search tool for NRC's public documents in ADAMS (September 30, 2010) :

Social Security Administration:

Appendix B, Table 1: Transparency Milestones and Completion Dates:


 * Deliver mandatory and entitlement payment data for 2007-2009 in the new FAADS Plus data format (September 2010)

U.S. Department of Education:


 * p. 57: In the interest of transparency, the Department plans to make these data publicly available for the first time and will start by moving five data sets to Data.gov this fiscal year:
 * 1) Annual list of schools in need of improvement since 2004–05;
 * 2) Annual list of Districts in need of improvement since 2004–05;
 * 3) Annual list of statewide assessment results in reading since 2003–04;
 * 4) Annual list of statewide assessment results in mathematics since 2003–04; and
 * 5) Annual list of district-level graduation rates reported under ESEA for 2006–07 and 2007–08.

U.S. Department of Commerce:


 * p. 13 - In Fiscal Year (FY) 2010, NIST will implement a digital library repository. This repository will conform to the latest library and publishing metadata standards to enhance the ability of other scholarly and research repositories to discover and harvest information

U.S. Department of Justice:

p. 5 - The FOIA Dashboard will be launched in two key phases. In the first phase, the Department will develop the functionality of the Dashboard with 2009 FOIA data from 25 key executive departments, including DOJ. We estimate this will be completed in September 2010. The second phase, estimated to be completed by March 2011, will involve supplementing this initial data with the 2010 FOIA compliance data from all 92 federal agencies that report it.

p. 34: scheduled dataset relases:


 * Jail Inmates at Midyear 2009 ‐‐ Statistical Tables
 * Mortality in Local Jails, 2000‐07 (This data include Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data and access will be limited to approved investigators)
 * Prison Inmates at Midyear 2009 ‐‐ Statistical Tables
 * Prisoners at Yearend, 2009‐Advance Counts
 * Census of Jail Facilities, 2006
 * Gang Units in Large Law Enforcement Agencies, 2007

U.S. Office of Personnel Management:

pp. 16-18 We are working on making four other kinds of retirement data available on July 31, 2010:

• Employee Annuitants Added to the Retirement Roll for the fiscal years 2006-2008 (three data sets) • Employee Annuitants on the Retirement Roll, three data sets for the same years • Survivor Annuitants Added to the Retirement Roll, also for fiscal years 2006-2008; and • Survivor Annuitants on the Retirement Roll, again for those three years.

For each of the five kinds of data, we plan to make the fiscal year 2009 data available on September 30, 2010, and we will post new data sets every year thereafter. Retirement and benefits information and statistics are of interest not only to NARFE, but also to other agencies and the general public.

Office of Management and Budget:


 * Each page on OMB’s website will incorporate, by September 2010, an application to engage the public that allows for public input into the data presented. This step would mark a significant expansion of public input to OMB.

October 1, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Defense:


 * Publish the next revision of our Open Government Plan

U.S. Department of Homeland Security:


 * p.16 - By October 1, 2010, the dhs.gov/open webpage will include direct links to component offices to ensure information is easily navigable for citizens seeking information about the Department.

October 7, 2010:

U.S. Department of the Interior:


 * p. 45 - DOI plans to have a citizen engagement tool ready for use within three to six months. (From April 7, 2010 - date of ODG publication)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration:


 * p. 28 - Six months (after ODG publication - April 7, 2010)

-Provide Web-based access to check the status of submitted requests through our FOIAExpress database.


 * p. 88 - Six Months

-Establish opensource.nasa.gov Web site as a one-stop shop for NASA open source (e.g., policies, guidelines, process documents, project links), which will serve NASA developers, NASA software release authorities, and the public.

Office of National Drug Control Policy:


 * Within six months (October 7, 2010):

o An interactive calendar of upcoming public briefings, news conferences, and events; and o A complete listing of all ONDCP-funded Drug Free Community grantees, including contact information (available in a machine readable format).


 * Within 6 months (October 7, 2010), make available online the ONDCP policy for declassifying information

October 31, 2010: 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission:


 * Institutionalize a process for maintaining and adding to its initial inventory of high-value data sets, taking into account the public’s input on the types of data that would be of value

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:


 * p. 66 - A “playbook” of policy actions and methods which are making CHDI successful will be developed and made widely available by October 2010

U.S. Department of Justice:

p. 35 - dataset release schedule:


 * Arrest Trends in the United States, 1980‐2008
 * Sexual Victimization Reported by Inmates in Prisons and Jails, 2008‐09‐‐Statistical Tables (This data include Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data and access will be limited to approved investigators)

November 30, 2010: U.S. Department of Justice:

p. 35 - dataset release schedule:


 * Justice Employment and Expenditures, 2006
 * Death in Custody Reporting Program ‐‐ Statistical Tables (This data include Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data and access will be limited to approved investigators)

December 31, 2010: 

U.S. Department of Commerce:


 * Make all United States Patent and Trademark Office patents, published patent applications, and related materials more easily searchable by the public online... As a step toward improved access to patent information, USPTO will begin posting this data online for free download through a third-party provider during calendar year 2010. (Deadline Met? http://patft.uspto.gov/)
 * Release the Commerce Secretary’s daily public schedule on either a daily or weekly basis (Deadline Met?)
 * p. 14 - The Ocean Surface Current Simulator (OSCURS) tool will be made available by the end of calendar year 2010

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:


 * Release last of 9 Medicare claim “basic files,” one for each major category of health care service for free public download on Data.gov.
 * Online publication of detailed Medicaid State Plan documents and amendments on the CMS website
 * Release of new national, state, regional, and potentially county-level data on Medicare prevalence of disease, quality, costs, and service utilization, never previously published
 * p. 20 - Release 14 new high-value data sets and three new high-value tools on Data.gov. Of the 14 new high-value data sets, 12 have never previously been available to the public in any form -- 10 data sets from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) alone. (The other two data sets are either online for the first time or downloadable in open format for the first time). The three tools – the CMS Dashboard, FDA-TRACK, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Dashboard – will be brand new.
 * p. 20 - In addition to these 17 new data sets and tools, HHS will be posting more than 40 existing data sets and tools to Data.gov by the end of 2010 – data and tools which are already available online in some form but will be updated with respect to their content and formally registered on Data.gov
 * p. 16 - Quarterly Open Government status reports to the public, published on our Open Government website, and soliciting public feedback and comment. The first report will happen in 3Q 2010, reporting on progress in 2Q. We commit to posting feedback on user comments 45 days after each quarterly report is issued, which will cover both user feedback on our status report as well as general comments received on our Open Government Plan since the last quarterly report
 * p. 16 - Will develop a menu of tools that HHSers can use to execute Participation and Collaboration initiatives (formally debuting in the 4th quarter of 2010)
 * p. 24 - The process of compiling all plans and amendments, ensuring that they are complete and accurate, validating them with the states, and putting them online on the CMS website in a standard format should be completed by the end of 2010.
 * p. 24 - New community-level indicators of health care cost, quality, and utilization, to be supplied by CMS to the new HHS Community Health Data Initiative by the end of 2010
 * p. 29 - FDA is planning to post new summary aggregate data resulting from the new Reportable Food Registry, beginning in the 4th quarter of FY 2010. The FDA Reportable Food Registry contains information about foods for which there is a reasonable probability that the article of food will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
 * p. 30 - In the 4th quarter of FY 2010, FDA also plans to enable the FDA Recalls website to provide drug, device, and food recall data in XML format to empower users to download, reuse or mash-up recall information.
 * p. 30 - The Administration on Aging (AoA) will be posting a raw data set from the Annual National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants in the 4th quarter of FY 2010. This data has never been posted online in a downloadable format or otherwise been made available to the public as a data set (Table has Q3 release date)
 * p. 30 - The ONC is in the process of developing a comprehensive performance measurement system and corresponding performance dashboard (ONC Dashboard) for its activities and programshe beta version of the ONC Dashboard launched for public view before the end of 2010
 * p. 63 - The HHS menu of tools will exist on a “platform” that Community of Practice (CoP). It is our goal to have at least 10 active participation and collaboration projects present and running on the Community of Practice collaboration platform by the end of 2010

U.S. Department of Labor:


 * p. 24 - Publish 10 datasets or tools to Data.gov containing new publically available data. Examples include: EBSA Enforcement Data, OFCCP Enforcement Data, OSHA Health Sampling Data
 * pp. 24-25 - Publish 10 datasets or tools to Data.gov containing data previously available in other formats

National Aeronautics and Space Administration:


 * p. 10 - In 2010, our three key governance documents will be rewritten and updated:

-The NASA Governance and Strategic Management Handbook (NASA Policy Directive – NPD – 1000.0A). -The NASA Organization (NPD 1000.3D). -The NASA Strategic Plan (NPD 1001.0).


 * p. 11 - Publishing of 10 new high value data sets to Data.gov in 2010.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission:


 * Nuclear Power Plant Inspection Reports (daily)

U.S. Social Security Administration:


 * Post at least five new high value datasets/information holdings to Data.gov

Office of the United States Trade Representative:


 * Post “plain English” summaries of all Free Trade Agreements (FTA)
 * Post 23 associated country tariff schedules as datasets (Deadline moved to December 2011)

U.S. Department of Justice:

p. 35 - dataset release schedule:


 * Public Contact with Police, 2008
 * State Prosecutors' Offices 2007
 * Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994 ‐‐ Statistical tables

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:

p. 17 - dataset inventory: http://www.epa.gov/open/Data_Set_Inventory0625.pdf

Datasets scheduled to be released in 2010:


 * NHDPlus
 * Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF)
 * Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF)
 * Integrated Climate and Land Use Scenarios (ICLUS)
 * Green Vehicle Guide (more detail in plan)

Council for Environmental Quality:


 * Federal GHG inventory: In 2011, the Federal government will publish, for the first time, a Federal GHG inventory. This inventory will be updated annually to report on progress towards meeting the GHG pollution reduction targets set by the Sustainability E.O.

January 31, 2011: 

U.S. Department of Justice:

p. 35 - dataset release schedule:


 * Sheriffs' Offices, 2007
 * Jails in Indian Country, 2009
 * Capital Punishment, 2009

 

February 31, 2011: 

Office of the United States Trade Representative:


 * USTR will immediately begin publishing each incoming Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and its response. USTR will publish past FOIAs and associated responses of special interest to the public. USTR has established a 60-day target for publishing past FOIA responses requested by the public. (Updated report changes target data to February 1, 2011. Also limited scope of past request to 2007 forward).

Spring 2011:

U.S. Department of Energy:


 * p. 39: To enhance transparency, the Department of Energy plans to launch the FOIA Portal in Spring 2011.

March 31, 2011: 

U.S. Department of Commerce:


 * National Telecommunications and Information Administration broadband data via a national broadband map

U.S. Department of Justice:

p. 5 - The FOIA Dashboard will be launched in two key phases. In the first phase, the Department will develop the functionality of the Dashboard with 2009 FOIA data from 25 key executive departments, including DOJ. We estimate this will be completed in September 2010. The second phase, estimated to be completed by March 2011, will involve supplementing this initial data with the 2010 FOIA compliance data from all 92 federal agencies that report it.

p. 35 - dataset release schedule:


 * Criminal Victimization, 2009

 

April 7, 2011:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration:


 * p. 51 - One year

-Provide live downlink of some ISS data as part of NASA exhibits.


 * p. 69 - One year

-Release five new high-value datasets or information holdings to Data.gov that have never been released to the public before based on public consultation with a Citizen Engagement Tool. Upon release, we will issue a rationale for why it is high-value.

July 30, 2011: 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission:


 * Reactor Materials Embrittlement Database (annually

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:


 * p. 18 - Publish the Strategic Data Action Plan (Q2, FY2011)

September 30, 2011:

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:


 * Make at least five new high-value data sets available on Data.gov Nuclear Regulatory Commission:
 * Key Documents Related to the Waste Incidental to Reprocessing Program (semiannually)
 * Status of Environmental Reviews to Meet the Requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (annually)
 * Generic Safety Issues (annually)

U.S. Social Security Administration:


 * Post five additional new high value datasets to Data.gov  

U.S. Department of the Treasury:


 * p. 25 - By September 30, 2010, the Data and Information Identification, Integrity, and Partnerships subcommittee will have processes in place to:
 * -Identify high value datasets for publication, including high value information not yet available

o Provide guidance on datasets to bureaus o Send quarterly request to bureaus/offices for new datasets via the mechanisms outlined in Treasury’s Data Quality Plan o Work with the Communications subcommittee (as outlined below) to cull information and needs about potentially new datasets from internal and external stakeholders o Develop a master list of systems that collect information and evaluate for High Value datasets o Identify a minimum of three new datasets per quarter -Make available to all bureaus the Data Quality Plan including guidance for timely publication of underlying data for public information maintained in electronic format -Identify key audiences for information and their needs, with a goal of publishing high value information for each of those audiences in the most accessible forms and formats


 * p. 27 - By September 30, 2010,the Data and Information Identification, Integrity, and Partnerships group will have processes in place to:
 * -Identify high value datasets for publication, including high value information not yet available o Provide guidance on datasets to bureaus o Send quarterly request to bureaus/offices for new datasets, e.g. email senior advisors for newly available data or reports o Work with the Communications subcommittee to cull information and needs about potentially new data sets from internal and external stakeholders. o Develop a master list of systems that collect information and evaluate for High Value datasets o Goal is to identify and publish a minimum of three new datasets per quarter -Provide a mechanism for timely publication of underlying data for public information maintained in electronic format

Winter 2011:

U.S. Department of Energy:


 * p. 41 - The Department plans to release eDISS personnel security datasets on the length of time to process security clearances by Winter 2011
 * December 31, 2011: 
 * Council for Environmental Quality:
 * Publish a federal greenhouse gas inventory that will be updated annually to report on progress towards meeting the greenhouse gas pollution reduction targets set by the Sustainability E.O.
 * U.S. Department of Commerce:
 * p. 20 - One of the more widely requested methods of being more transparent involves streaming video of appropriate Commerce meetings for public viewing. While it would be prohibitively expensive to provide video access to all meetings that occur at Commerce on any given day, it is important to increase the extent to which streaming is currently employed. To do so, Commerce plans to meet core new media objectives relative to streaming meetings or events in 2011.
 * p. 20 - One of the more widely requested methods of being more transparent involves streaming video of appropriate Commerce meetings for public viewing. While it would be prohibitively expensive to provide video access to all meetings that occur at Commerce on any given day, it is important to increase the extent to which streaming is currently employed. To do so, Commerce plans to meet core new media objectives relative to streaming meetings or events in 2011.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:


 * p. 18 - Make 5 additional high value data sets available
 * Define processes to identify innovative uses of data

 

April 7, 2012: 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration:


 * p. 28 - Two years (after ODG publication - April 7, 2010)

-Eliminate legacy FOIA database and become solely reliant on our newly procured Web-based database. -Create better user experience of reading rooms with integrated public accessibility of the Web-based FOIAExpress system.


 * December 31, 2012: 
 * U.S. Department of Transportation:
 * create a data release process, integrate Open Government principles into existing governance bodies, and pursing initiatives that advance priority Open Government objectives
 * TBA: 
 * U.S. Department of Defense:
 * p. 5 - ...we are carefully considering those datasets that have been a topic of interest in the past or seem most likely to be of interest and value to the public, the media, academics, the research and development community and open government advocates. We will also be soliciting suggestions from our own internal community, which have more detailed knowledge of possible datasets than any individual or organization.
 * p. 9 - ...the Department is in the process of establishing an internal working group with representatives from across various Components to more fully and effectively support its future participation in Data.gov specifically, and Open Government in general.
 * U.S. Agency for International Development: 
 * p. 6 - 1.1.3 - High Value Data Not Yet Available: As part of its normal business, USAID generates both operational and programmatic data. Operational data sets, used as part of central planning, budget and reporting, are coordinated centrally. For USAID programmatic data - our future plans will address not only public access but also internal coordination to gather and standardize data from across the Agency's technical offices and country Missions.
 * U.S. Department of Energy:
 * p. 39: EIA plans to post more High-Value Information and Datasets in the future
 * p. 34 - OSTI plans to post more High-Value Information and Datasets "in the future", including adding the Green Energy Data Service and publishing Comma-separated value (CSV) formats for other datasets (some listed in a chart on this page)
 * U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development:
 * p. 31 - Create a centralized and much more easily navigable website that utilizes an IdeaScale-like interface to allow the public to better engage with proposed rule changes
 * U.S. Department of State:
 * Release a schedule for data sets, declassified information, and other information to be published for the balance of this fiscal year
 * U.S. Small Business Administration:
 * Provide an online resource that will serve as an interactive organization chart, a mechanism for members of the public to search for an SBA employee by name, and/or browse a phone directory listing by office or SBA resource
 * Require each program office catalog currently available public data in a central repository
 * Incorporate public requests for new data, and review and prioritize comments via public engagement tools to identify new or improved datasets
 * Regularly review all comments related to new, improved or existing data to identify gaps and enhancements, and prioritize opportunities for improvements against agency infrastructure, resources and benefits
 * Regularly review all comments related to new, improved or existing data to identify gaps and enhancements, and prioritize opportunities for improvements against agency infrastructure, resources and benefits

U.S. Social Security Administration:


 * Identify data (at least 5 high–value datasets and information holdings) that had never been made available to the public before, and provide a timetable for release. The data releases will conform to the standards of Data.gov and the Information Quality Act.

Office of Management and Budget:


 * Publish congressional earmarks for Fiscal Year 2011 in machine-readable formats and available at Earmarks.gov and Data.gov *Publish earmark recipient/beneficiary information from agencies on Earmarks.gov in the Summer

Office of National Drug Control Policy:


 * Within three months:
 * An enhanced ONDCP blog with 2-4 posts per week about ongoing activities, data and research, or emerging drug control issues
 * Information about each of the Agency’s three signature initiatives and why each is important to American citizens
 * Updated staffing list of Agency leadership, including instructions for how to contact them
 * Release a current organizational chart with descriptions of each of the Agency’s components.
 * Within six months: --An interactive calendar of upcoming public briefings, news conferences, and events
 * A complete listing of all ONDCP-funded Drug Free Community grantees, including contact information (available in a machine readable format)
 * Within one year:
 * Congressional reports and other progress updates that provide information about ongoing ONDCP activities and programs.

Office of Science and Technology Policy:


 * Continue to publish new high-value data sets pertaining to Federal spending on R&amp;D in open, machine-readable, downloadable formats

Office of the United States Trade Representative:


 * Publish Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and its response within 60 days

U.S. Department of State:


 * p. 24 - Release in the coming weeks a schedule for data sets, declassified information, and other information to be published for the balance of this fiscal year

U.S. Department of Transportation:


 * P. 23 - The DOT will complete a comprehensive Department-wide data inventory, to support the data set selection and release process, by September 30, 2010. After completing this inventory, the DOT will establish timelines for publication of appropriate information not yet available for download in open formats and set specific target dates for release. Once those target dates are formalized, they will be included in the next iteration of the DOT Open Government Plan.