Can Libraries Accelerate Local Open Data Publishing?

A Stake in the Game: Public Disclosure Coordinators at the Open Data Table

Need help with open data? Ask a librarian.

As the open data movement evolves, one institution finds itself in multiple roles as…

The Public Records Request Life Cycle

An overview of a public record request

WSDOT Records as Open Data

Over the last eight weeks, I have worked on an analysis of Washington State Department of Transportation’s (WSDOT) Public Disclosure Request (PDR) dataset. My main goal for this project was to find frequently requested datasets and documents, not exempted by Washington State law…

Summarizing a Summer Devoted to Data

An inquiry into public records requests using natural language processing

Over the summer, I worked on a project devoted to understanding commonalities across a dataset of public records. The…

Improving User Experience for Public Records Requests

Ruminations and meditations on public records…

2018 Open Data Literacy Internships

The Open Data Literacy Project (ODL) at the University of Washington is happy to announce a new set of Summer Internships for 2018. Four graduate students from the Information School (iSchool) will be working on open data projects with public sector partners…

Wrapping up with Public Records & the Open Data Alliance in Washington

Recap