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Thanks for sharing this! The notion of archiving "Open Data" due to a change in government still seems odd considering this is factual, time-stamped data.
by runesoerensen 10y ago
Thanks for sharing this! The notion of archiving "Open Data" due to a change in government still seems odd considering this is factual, time-stamped data.
- jdoliner 10y agoAll digital properties go to a clean slate when the Presidency changes hands. There's nothing odd about this. It's similar to the physical aspects of the government, such as cabinet posts, that are directly under the Presidents purview. It being factual really has no bearing on this, although given that for data it just gets archived rather than completely purged it seems to be an incredibly reasonable treatment. The title of this post, on the other hand, is, dare I say, an alternative fact.
- larma 10y agoApparently they changed the software used to store the data, in the bottom on https://open.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ https://open.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ it says "powered by dkan", on https://open.whitehouse.gov/ https://open.whitehouse.gov/ it says "powered by socrata". Maybe it was not easily possible to migrate the data and/or it is planned to be done later.