Semantic. Store. Install bookmarklet. Twitter4rdf. Provenance Vocabulary - trdf. Obama’s Groundbreaking use of the Semantic Web. In a revolutionary move, Obama’s administration is set to utilise next generation web technologies to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to government. In this case it will shed light on how the roughly US $800 billion dollar economic stimulus will be spent. The recently launched recovery.gov website (powered by nothing other then Drupal) brought with it the promise that citizens would be able to view where the money was going and how it was going to be spent. George Thomas, from the U.S. government website recovery.gov, presented some of the details at a talk earlier this month at Transparency Camp.
He talked about the moves that the government is taking and the importance of the above technology stack to make that happen. About 2 months ago I wrote about President Obama’s usage of RDFa on whitehouse.gov. While that was admittedly about the size of a grain of sand this is like discovering a new planet. Crowdsourcing I am excited!
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