Data.gov Mission and Strategy

The data.gov team has existed since 2009. During this time multiple administrations have come and gone, the OPEN Government Data Act was written and passed into law, the entire team has changed over (multiple times), the underlying technology and infrastructure has changed. All this to say there are many reasons why things are the way they are. Some of them are from meticulous planning, some from legacy decisions that are no longer relevant.

The following documents (most are google drive, gov access only) are a good place to start when looking at the data.gov mission and strategy: what do we do, why do we exist, and what is our future plan? The reason this page exists is that much of this information has become buried in google drive in various places, and needed to be collated for new team members. https://github.com/GSA/data.gov/issues/4354

• Mission statement and activity list (from 2020, could use updating)
• History of major milestones
• Catalog Feature List
• 2022 National Action Plan (open government)
• Federal Data Strategy 2021 Action Plan
• OPEN Government Data Act summary
• Geospatial Data Act summary
• House committee report (worth reviewing again if doing an overview of applicable legislation)
• OPEN Government Data Act requirements (detailed, from viewpoint of technical)
• General summary of May 2022 user testing with public users

This list and other non-public information can also be found here.