U.S. City Open Data Census
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Open spending data informs citizens, journalists, and government officials alike as to just how public funds are being spent. Spending data should include a complete list of city expenditures at a detailed transactional level (including tax breaks, loans, contracts, grants, and operational spending). In other words, records should be fairly granular, covering, for instance, month to month expenditures on specific items costing in the thousands rather than the millions. This data category refers to detailed ongoing data on actual expenditures; a database of contracts awarded is not considered sufficient. (More info)
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licensed | No | "The license for this dataset is unspecified." listed in the Licensing and Attribution field of Socrata. The terms of use also lack statements on license https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/terms-of-use |
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | Unaudited data is updated quarterly for all payees with combined spending of $25,000 or more. |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | CSV, JSON, RDF, TSV, XML | |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | Visited the OpenPGC open data portal after a Google search for "pg county open data". | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | zip code data formats vary of both 5 and 9 digit variety and lines with no value for zip code. |
| collector_name | SAP/OIT Data Warehouse | Data Provided by SAP/OIT Data Warehouse Dataset Owner OIT DataWarehouse Powered By Socrata |
| characteristics | Expense type or category, Expense description, Amount | |
| location | https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Finance-and-Budg - Socrata data repo Landing page for Spending Information for FY 2018, https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Finance-and-Budg - Socrata Table view of the data |