That's in a perfect world. The first step is to get the data out there. They we can start wondering about structure and presentation. It takes a long time to build a data infrastructure, but you should stop people who have the skills and interest from getting their hands on it. Hopefully data.gov will work with data producers to become a quality data resource, but at least there is a resource in the first place, a place to go and find material.

Perhaps a model might be people starting from data.gov and then creating different views into the data for different purposes. They don't have to reside on data.gov, and personally that's what I hope the site evolves to. Making data available in reasonable formats that can then be converted into information by other people.