Search Open MissouriLast week was a big one for Open Missouri. We added details about databases from the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, which collects a whole lot of information, thanks to federal and state education laws. We now list information about nearly 220 databases and 19 state agencies.
The Open Missouri team has made great strides these past several months gathering inventories of data sets held offline by state government agencies. We’ve been asking agencies to tell us for each database:
- Name
- Description
- Data format
- Time span covered by the data
- Update frequency
- Cost (if any)
We’re grateful for the help from the seven agencies that compiled information about their databases for Open Missouri. But we still have gaps to fill. Another seven agencies have not provided the information that we’ve requested. Two others have given us some information and we need to circle back and get the missing details. Here’s a list of agencies and where they stand:
Provided requested information
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Conservation
- Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
- Ethics Commission
- Historical Society
- Department of Natural Resources
- UM System
Provided partial information
- Department of Labor and Industrial Relations
- Department of Revenue
Processing our request
- Department of Public Safety
Have not provided the information we requested
- Office of Administration
- Department of Corrections
- Department of Economic Development
- Department of Health and Senior Services
- Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Regulation
- Department of Mental Health
- Department of Social Services
We have not yet asked
- Department of Higher Education
- Department of Transportation
You can see that we have plenty to do. If you know about a data set that a state agency keeps, please join the Open Missouri community and then click on the “Suggest a data set button” to tell us as much as you know about it.
-David Herzog