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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.

To enable the citizen masher to do their wizardry, the administration will be opening up a veritable candy store of goodies: Semantic Web , RDF , Linked Data , SPARQL , RDFa , SIOC , ATOM , RESTful APIs, JSON, Widgets, Wikis , XForms, P2P Networks. Wow. They only forgot the lions and tigers and bears oh my… This is an unbelievable stack of technology. I didn’t think the government even knew what an RSS feed was

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. And that planet is within walking distance.

Gone are the days of Bush and back door deals and under-the-table money exchanges ( Halliburton anyone?). Now every single penny will be watchable, trackable and clickable. But with over US $800 billion being spent there is a lot of pennies to track. What is the most effective way to …

Source: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/03/19/obama-groundbreaking-use-semantic-web/

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.

To enable the citizen masher to do their wizardry, the administration will be opening up a veritable candy store of goodies: Semantic Web , RDF , Linked Data , SPARQL , RDFa , SIOC , ATOM , RESTful APIs, JSON, Widgets, Wikis , XForms, P2P Networks. Wow. They only forgot the lions and tigers and bears oh my… This is an unbelievable stack of technology. I didn’t think the government even knew what an RSS feed was

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. And that planet is within walking distance.

Gone are the days of Bush and back door deals and under-the-table money exchanges ( Halliburton anyone?). Now every single penny will be watchable, trackable and clickable. But with over US $800 billion being spent there is a lot of pennies to track. What is the most effective way to …

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