San Francisco's Open Data Release Toolkit offers detailed guidance on how departments can evaluate whether, and how, sensitive data sets should be made public.

Public data sites like EveryBlock, or the Sunlight Foundation's Design for America contest have highlighted some of the amazing ways open data can make our lives better.

An explanation of open data, why it's important and how you can do it yourself.

The Sunlight Foundation recently gave cities a roadmap to launch open data frameworks or enrich existing ones.

Opening government data and making it more useful has been a focus of the Obama administration, and a new report released Monday seeks to show the next administration how to build on those gains.

Open source data storage offers a great deal of flexibility, but unlocking its benefits will require strong technical resources to meet requirements such as stability, high availability and security.

Assumptions about government openness vary from country to country. Here are a few lessons a cross-national perspective can bring to the open data movement.

If researchers shared their data, we could take a big step towards saving the world’s coral reefs.