Microsoft announces the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI)
Today Microsoft announced the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI). The goal of OGDI is to encourage the publishing and use of public government data. See the press release here What’s special about OGDI? OGDI enables government organizations to easily expose data for *programmatic access* vs download. An OGDI container stores data in Microsoft Windows Azure storage and anyone with a myriad of both Microsoft and non-Microsoft programming skills can access the data. Flash, PHP, Ruby, Python, C#, Silverlight, maps, have at it! OGDI-based data repositories expose data via the very familiar REST programming model. At the heart of OGDI is a read-only data service built on Windows Azure.
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Microsoft announces the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI)
