RTDNA, IRE, NICAR, GPRAMA, FEBPA & OGDA

In follow-up to this afternoon's CredWeb CG televideo conference, the 
about us statements for the following orgs are now available in StratML 
format:

    Radio Television Digital News Association -
    https://stratml.us/carmel/iso/RTDNAwStyle.xml

    Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. -
    https://stratml.us/carmel/iso/IREwStyle.xml

    National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (aka data
    journalism) - https://stratml.us/carmel/iso/NICARwStyle.xml

With reference to NICAR's Goal 1: Government Datasets 
<https://stratml.us/carmel/iso/NICARwStyle.xml#_4cb5d966-4dfc-11ea-bf6d-a3983183ea00> 
- Make government datasets available to journalists, it would be good if 
they were to follow up on the opportunities presented by section 10 
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-machine-readable-government-owen-ambur/> 
of GPRAMA and the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (FEBPA 
<https://stratml.us/drybridge/index.htm#FEBPA>), including Title II, the 
OPEN Government Data Act (OGDA 
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-gov-data-act-machine-readable-records-owen-ambur/>). 


FEBPA requires agencies toconsult with stakeholders 
<https://stratml.us/references/HR4174.htm#public_engagement> in 
establishing priorities for disclosure of records in open, standard 
schema-compliant format. However, since GPRAMA explicitly requires 
agencies to publish their performance reports in such format, they 
should be expected to comply with the law and journalists should be 
prepared to take advantage of such data to show taxpayers what they are 
getting for their money.

BTW, IRE is the first organization I recall valuing outrage 
<https://stratml.us/carmel/iso/IREwStyle.xml#values_>.  Presumably, they 
may temper such motivational input to achieve credible balance in their 
reporting outputs.

Owen