During Sunshine Week, D.C. government is taking stock of public datasets.

The District’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer released an Enterprise Dataset Inventory as open data. It’s the first time the District has released such a report. and follows on the heels of a new data policy that was implemented by Mayor Muriel Bowser last year taking the stance of “open by default.”

“We can’t really claim to care about our data if we don’t know what data we have, where it is or how sensitive it is,” Barney Krucoff, the District’s Interim CTO who joined the office as Chief Data Officer in 2016, said in a statement. “…Publishing the EDI inventory as open data is fundamental to transparency.”

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