期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science
出版年度：2014
卷号：40
期号：4
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：Recent U.S. federal government initiatives have placed increased emphasis on government information, its management and dissemination for the public good. The first executive order signed during the first Obama Administration in January 2009 was the Open Government Directive, which emphasizes transparency, openness and collaboration [ 1 ]. The Office of Science and Technology Policy then issued a memorandum in February 2013 requiring agencies with research budgets of a certain size to make the results of the research openly accessible to the public [ 2 ]. In this statement, which has come to be called the “Holdren Memo,” the White House focused on the results of government-funded research as a public good and its potential impact on the economy. In other words, not only have taxpayers paid for the research but open access to government-funded information, both publications and data, has economic value when the information is applied more broadly by the public and businesses. This memorandum spurred a follow-on memorandum with specific requirements that government data be available in machine-actionable formats [ 3 ].
