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A suggestion: It might be nice to have a spot for people to contribute links to sources (e.g. Census 2014 data release schedule ).

This would allow us to start collecting them now, even before we have a format in place. It would also let less technically-inclined folks contribute suggestions if they aren't sure how to add them to whatever format we wind up with.

I don't know if an Issue is the best place for this, or a .md file in the repo.

I was nosing around on data.gov and found in their FAQ how they collect their data.

Publish a Public Data Listing. Agencies are required to publish a list of their data assets that are public, or could be made public. This list is made available as a data.json file hosted at the primary domain of the agency (e.g. gsa.gov/data.json)

These conform to this schema. I've attached one from the GSA and one from the Department of Education (ed.gov/data.json).

I didn't know these existed. Perhaps they're useful.

GSA

Ed

(note: I had to change the extension to txt so they'd attach to the issue, but they're JSON)

Per the "[NICAR-L] Data Release Calendar" thread on the mailing list a script that produced "a simple calendar display of some type" or an actual ical feed would be a useful addition to this project.