Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut

Re:Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut by DrHankPym on Thursday March 31, 2011 @06:31PM (#2394015)

Was Data.gov really that expensive to maintain? What is this cut really saving? $20 / month?

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Re:Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut by Ainab on Thursday March 31, 2011 @06:38PM (#2394047)

If you only consider hosting, but gathering data and formating takes more than $20.

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Re:Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut by ilikepi on Thursday March 31, 2011 @07:18PM (#2394190)

"over the last few years data.gov has cost $8.3 million; the cloud computing initiative has cost $1.4 million; and USASpending.gov has cost $13.3 million"

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/03/23/transparency-t...

So yeah, a bit more than $20/mo, but relative to the budget as a whole....

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Re:Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut by Estragon on Thursday March 31, 2011 @07:33PM (#2394239)

So, a few hours in Iraq/Afghanistan, then...

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Re:Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut by maxogden on Thursday March 31, 2011 @07:42PM (#2394272)

when released, data.gov was the largest RDF triple store in the world #funfact

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Re:Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut by baconner on Friday April 01, 2011 @03:40PM (#2397696)

I don't think that's true.. when released I don't recall any rdf data being available on data.gov. the rdf initiative came way later, no? On release it was just a list of external data sources with links and metadata.

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