[Animats]

If you insist on government data being cleaned up, explained, and made "accessible" in the politically correct sense, far less raw data will be released. What gets released will probably have been scrutinized and "redacted". The good stuff comes from vast raw files used for some internal purpose.

[jcims]

Agreed. Access first, invest in the accommodations once the data proves useful. Unless your day job is releasing easily consumed data to the public, this likely isn't your top priority.

[teucris]

> “accessible" in the politically correct sense

I don’t know how you could get to this as being the point of this article. It’s calling for basic data-cleaning that is much cheaper for the publisher than the consumer, making it inaccessible to people who could really use it.