From the Chair. West, A. DttP: Documents to the People, 37(3):5–6, 2009. abstract bibtex Recently, there has been increased interest in government data. However, data have been construed so broadly without any routine acknowledgment of the many different kinds of data that are of such interest. This article discusses various elements of government data and what data might mean to government information specialists with respect to dissemination, access, formatting, usability, and preservation of increasingly large amounts of government information at all levels. One kind of data relates to numeric data files representing censuses, surveys, geospatial coordinates, and sensor measurements. These files may be true data, but they are separate from text. Another kind of data, open data, are not just the data version of open access journals. Copyright is not the only factor that might inhibit open access to data. Ethical research methods and local, state, and federal law all require much data to be kept from the public for at least some period of time, if not permanently. Privacy is also an important concern when the data involved are government records. Government information librarians must keep up with all the trends related to government data because such information often means different things and may have massive implications for collections as well as copyright. Government data also offer librarians an opportunity to explore new ways of serving their users by devising new means of information delivery. Adapted from the source document.
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