Collecting datasets the community would like to see published in a machine readable format.
(Copy and paste the below into a new issue.)
**Concise description**:
**Government agency/ies to contact**
**Link (more details/brain dump/alpha)**
**Who will use/benefit from this data?**
**Specific Ideas for use of the data**
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We are still thinking about how this turns into action. Here are some ideas:
- Show the City and other government agencies specific community interest in datasets or questions of licensing and use.
- Begin to think of programmatic ways to request this data as individuals and as Open Austin.
- Long term, pie-in-the-sky dream is a regional open data portal maintained "by the people, for the people." This would be a place were you could dump Public Information Request data. It would be a more user friendly version of http://data.open-austin.org/