Emileigh Barnes

18 posts tagged with "open data" The U.S. Data Federation wants to make it easier to collect, combine, and exchange data across government By Julia Lindpaintner March 5, 2019 10x data access open data The U.S. Data Federation Project is an initiative of the GSA Technology Transformation Services 10x program, which seeks to address the need for knowledge sharing, repeatable processes, and reusable tools for federated data efforts.

Note: The sestina is a poetic form. It’s constructed of six stanzas, of which each contain six lines. In the first stanza, the last word of each line is reused throughout the poem, to end the lines in each subsequent stanza, following a set pattern. We’ve used our blog to write about creating new content, but we haven’t discussed managing published pages. Specifically, when to delete them. In the content design world, we call this concept “sunsetting.” Sunsetting can be contentious in government.

Our content squad is made of folks with a wide range of backgrounds and skills — we put this to good use by regularly asking each other for help with projects. Here’s a diagrammatic look into some of our recent collaboration. One of my projects involves a substantial content migration. I’ve done lots of plain language work, but I’ve never shepherded this much content from one place to another.