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A Primer on Machine Readability for Online Documents and Data

Posted on Mon, 2012-09-24 12:35 by Jim Hendler and Theresa A. Pardo
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Support for schema.org at Data.gov

Posted on Sat, 2012-07-07 19:48 by Chris Musialek

We've been watching the schema.org datasets schema space for a while now, as Data.gov is very interested in adding schema.org support for our listing of over 450,000 datasets. We think this will help the major search engines create better relevance rankings of Federal government data, where many searches begin.

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EPA Moving Forward with Publishing Linked Open Data

Posted on Mon, 2012-06-25 09:35 by Michael Pendleton

Making environmental data available for reuse by others is a core strategy EPA uses to help meet its mission of protecting human health and safeguarding the environment.  EPA has a long tradition of publishing data - notable examples include Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data, as well as Envirofacts – a data warehouse that provides public access to data extracts from Agency program information systems.  EPA is also helping to support data discovery through the

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