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The United States may be close to making it easier for application developers to tear into government data as early as next month on its new Web site, data.gov. Meanwhile, the Web 2.0 era of data openness will get a boost next week by the availability for download of campaign and lobbying data collected by a private group.
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The Center for Responsive Politics, best known for its OpenSecrets.org web site, has been standardizing, cleaning and organizing campaign and lobbying data on its web site. It now intends to allow anyone to download compressed CSV text files of its data without charge beginning sometime in the middle of April 2009.
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