DATA.GOV Launches

Data.gov is the Executive Branch data portal.  It provides access to machine readable raw data sets and to applications including spatial. There are 47 raw datasets and 27 applications available now, but you're encouraged to suggest additional datasets and site enhancements to provide "seamless access and use of your Federal data."

Raw datasets

• 1 Global Trade - World Copper Smelters
• 1 National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC) 
• 1 Patent Grant Bibliographic Data (2009)  
• 1 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) Files, All Data, 2005  
• ACRES - Brownfields Properties
• Active Mines and Mineral Plants in the US
• Ages from the National Geochronological Database
• Benefits Data from the Benefits and Earnings Public Use File, 2004  
• Chemical Analyses of Soils and other Surficial Materials of the Coterminous US
• Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET): Ozone  
• Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET): Visibility  
• Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Observations (CoCoRaHS)   
• Current Watches, Warnings, or Advisories for the United States
• Database of Tornado, Large Hail, and Damaging Wind Reports, 1950-2006  
• Earnings Data from the Benefits and Earnings Public-Use File, 2004   
• EPA Geospatial Data Download: Facility and Site Information
• Geochemistry of Sediments from the PLUTO Database 
• Geochemistry of Sediments from the Rock Analysis Storage System (RASS) Database 
• Geochemistry of Sediments in the US from the (NURE-HSSR) Database 
• Geochemistry of Soils from the PLUTO Database  
• Geochemistry of Soils from the Rock Analysis Storage System (RASS) Database 
• Geochemistry of Water Samples in the US from the NURE-HSSR Database   
• Geographical Information System Graphical Database of Tornados 1950-2006   
• Geology of the Coterminous United States
• Interactive Access To National Income and Product Accounts Tables   
• Lower Colorado River Daily Average Water Elevations and Releases   
• Migratory Bird Flyways - Continental United States  
• Mineral Operations of Africa and the Middle East
• Mineral Operations of Latin America and Canada
• Mineral Resource Data System: Conterminous US 
• National Geochemical Survey Database
• Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD) Locations  
• Office of Advocacy's News Update File    
• Past Atlantic Storm Tracks  
• Past East Pacific Storm Tracks  
• Patent Application Bibliographic Data (2009)
• Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) Files, Energy Consumption, 2005  
• Resource Data File - Alaska (ARDF)
• Severe Weather Data (SVRGIS) GIS Data - County Warning Area
• Storm Prediction Report  
• Tornado Tracks and Icons, 1950-2006
• Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past 7 Days  
• Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past Day  
• Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past Hour  
• Worldwide M2.5+ Earthquakes, Past 7 Days   
• Worldwide M2.5+ Earthquakes, Past Day
• Worldwide M5+ Earthquakes, Past 7 Days

  Tools

• 1 Federal Bureau of Investigation Widget
• 1 HHS 2009 Flu Info
• 1 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey MEPSnet Insurance Component (MEPSnet/IC)
• 1 USA Spending Contracts and Purchases
• 1 USA Spending Grants and Loans
• Airline On-Time Performance and Causes of Flight Delays
• American FactFinder
• Cancer Incidence - Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Registries Limited-Use
• CDC Emergency Text Messages
• DataFerret
• Emergency Preparedness and Response Widgets
• FDA Peanut-Containing Product Recall
• Federal Hurricane Response Widget
• Federal Register
• FluView National Flu Activity Map
• Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System
• Geospatial One-Stop
• National Assessment of Educational Progress, NAEP 
• National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) 
• NOAA Watch Web Widgets
• North American TransBorder Freight Monthly and Annual Summary Data
• SESTAT
• The National Atlas
• The National Map
• VitalStats
• Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
• Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER)

Comments

[Marten]

Sure, the design doesn't look web 2.0, but Geospatial One-Stop (http://www.geodata.gov) has been providing access to over 200,000 geographic datasets, services, and apps for the past 5 years... It is listed as 1 tool on data.gov.

I'd be interested to see the site's vision for a growing catalog of content, descriptions of datasets as they are added (what is the role of FGDC CSDGM in this? how will I decide if a datasets is right for me?)

Can I search data.gov from my own client?

What about services? isn't that part web 2.0?

Marten