Local news startup Civil Beat today posted a piece on the names and salaries of state House and Senate members and staff. As before, they posted a watermarked PDF on Slideshare with the download feature disabled, and invited people to become “full members” to use their searchable database. But if you’d like to download and [...]
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Adventures in Open Data
September 14th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Government, Hawaii, Technology, The Web
Tags: civilbeat·opendata·publicdata·publicinformation·publicrecords
Civil Beat Puts Public Data Behind the Paywall
August 19th, 2010 · 27 Comments · Blogs, Media, Politics, The Web
The headline proclaims, “Civil Beat Shares Hawaii State Employee Salaries“ — but there’s a catch: you have to pay to get full access to the information. To be sure, there’s a reasonable and deep debate to be had over whether the names and salaries of government employees should be public in the first place. I was [...]
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