Tennessee to consider open data standards under proposed legislation

By |2016-02-23T18:24:05-06:00February 23, 2016|Categories: open data|Tags: , , , , |1 Comment

A bill that would create a task force to study the feasibility of state government to utilize an open data policy cleared the House State Government Committee on Tuesday. The task force created under the bill, H.B. 2215 / S.B. 2427, would: (1) Examine whether state agencies may collect or create information in a way that supports downstream information processing and dissemination activities, including using machine readable and open formats, data standards, and common core and extensible metadata for all new information creation and collection efforts; (2) Ensure information stewardship by the state agencies through the use of open licenses and review of information for privacy, confidentiality, security, or other [...]