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According to the company, to help public sector entities meet the demands for transparency, collaboration and participation, Microsoft's OGDI provides an Internet standards-based approach to house existing public government data in its cloud computing platform, Windows Azure. The approach makes the data accessible in a programmatic manner that uses open, industry-standard protocols and application programming interfaces (APIs). A reference beta site, http://ogdisdk.cloudapp.net, showcases an implementation of a data service in Windows Azure, using a sample of publicly available government data.
Through OGDI, the company is highlighting the importance of programmatic access to government data, as compared to downloading the data. When government agencies provide programmatic access to data, people who want to build solutions that use that data will be able to leverage the following capabilities: the ability to write programs that access data via web-friendly programming methods without having to download or host the data; the ability for governments to automatically refresh data without having to buy and maintain servers; the ability to write applications using any technology via open standards; as well as easier access to a wide range of government datasets.
The source code for OGDI is publicly available on CodePlex, Microsoft's open source hosting site, enabling developers to reuse it and provide feedback. Sample code is also provided for such technologies as PHP, Python, Flash, JavaScript or Silverlight.
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