id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crln-8683 Pattillo, Gary Fast Facts 2011-12-01 1 .pdf application/pdf 435 17 36 Open Government Data The Working Group on Open Government Data (a project of the Open Knowl- edge Foundation) has produced a Web site for the following purposes: 1) to act as a central point of reference and support for people who are interested in open government data; 2) to develop principles for making official information legally and technically open; 3) to document background and status of initia- tives to make official information open in different countries; and 4) to support development of open government data catalogs around the world, and ensure different platforms are technically interoperable. “It is crucial [in] our information-based society that Web crawl data be open and accessible to anyone who desires to utilize it,” writes Common Crawl Foundation director Lisa Green on the organization’s blog. cache/crln-8683.pdf txt/crln-8683.txt