Search Open MissouriThe OpenMissouri team made progress during the past few months by posting information about data sets kept offline by some additional state government agencies. Master’s students from the Missouri School of Journalism working with me gathered the information from the departments of Higher Education and Public Safety. We’re grateful to have them on board, working together to make government more transparent in the Show-Me State.
Here’s a quick rundown of where stage agencies stand, in terms of providing information to OpenMissouri:
Provided requested information at no cost
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Conservation
- Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
- Ethics Commission
- Department of Higher Education
- Historical Society
- Department of Natural Resources
- Department of Public Safety
- UM System
Provided partial information at no cost
- Department of Labor and Industrial Relations
- Department of Revenue
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
Said it would provide information for a fee
- Department of Transportation ($270)
You can see a good number of agencies are working with us. A good number still are not, but we hope to change that so we can become an even more valuable resource for you.
–David Herzog, OpenMissouri founder
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Jonathan, Josh, I agree that we waste/lose/throw away too much of our daily work. And, if we’re to keep it, we need a data structure for it to be vbaulale. The trick, with all data structures, is that it involves semi-permanent choices about what parts of information are important and what aren’t is time of day important, or just day? Should location of an interview be logged, or does it not matter? Do we need the person’s age? And so on. If we’re not careful, we can drop in a sea of vbaulale but overly complex information. Two thoughts: One is how Politifact cut back what they wanted from reporters to a very simple structure; it lost a lot of information, but it made up for it with a strong new type of product. Another is that we need to come up with products first, and then structure the work around it, rather than try to structure data around the pretty messy life of a normal journalist. People are adaptable; they don’t need to keep working the way they used to. Reg
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