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Beware of "open data" cheerleaders. Several of these things are simply resume fodder -- the CIO announces this amazing API at a fancy conference, (living it up traveling on the taxpayer dime) and the open data people fawn all over them. Value/substance of the API? Zero.

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Also see where they release a junk API as "open" while selling accessing to the same data behind the scenes.

All of these types of APIs need to be identified. We need a way to high grade them and make it known when they don't have any value.

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