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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been in the business of ?open data? since the very beginning of the agency?s history, when President Washington signed the First Patent Act into law in 1790. But while this information was always ?open? in the sense that issued patents were available to the public, it wasn?t necessarily accessible. Now, in the USPTO Innovation Lab, the USPTO?s Open Data and Mobility program is providing new platforms and sustainable ways to find, use, and manipulate data.
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The National Science Foundation’s Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) Program seeks to encourage projects that develop data resources to support research that advances the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. The purpose of this Dear Colleague Letter is to invite early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals for projects that use, augment, improve or create data on the U.S. science and innovation enterprise.
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Until recently, legislative data?information about legislative activities, including bills and their status, lawmaker votes, committee meetings, public communications by members of Congress, lobbying information, and the products of legislative support agencies such as the Congressional Research Service?was rarely published as open data. This is changing.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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The USPTO has announced several updates to their PatentsView project. First, they have updated the PatentsView database with data through December 21, 2015. As always, these data are available through the search and visualization interface, as well as the API and the bulk downloads. More importantly, the inventor disambiguation algorithm has been significantly enhanced using the output of their workshop winning team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They have also enhanced the location disambiguation to ensure we are better capturing the geography of innovation.
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In the labyrinth of bus routes, rail lines and commuter arteries that make up a city map, identifying areas that lack sufficient services can be difficult. But a new U.S. Transportation Department initiative would help pinpoint these ?transit deserts.? Then, planners say, urban and suburban pockets with substandard train and bus service ? or those lacking any transit ? could be better connected to a city?s grid.
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Visualization of the Week
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Population losses in Puerto Rico have accelerated in recent years, affecting every corner of the island and continuing the largest outmigration in more than 50 years, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly released county-level Census Bureau data. Puerto Rico’s population has shrunk since 2000Among Puerto Rico?s counties that saw the largest population losses between 2010 and 2015 was San Juan, home to the island?s capital city and largest metro area. That county?s population declined by 40,000 people (-10%) to 355,000, by far the largest numeric drop of any county. Nine other counties saw population declines of at least 10% during this time.
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Notable Data Publications
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APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
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Administration for Children and Families
- Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program 2015 RECS LIHEAP Administrative Data Matching (April 27, 2016)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Survey of Hospital Quality Leaders (May 31, 2016)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (May 31, 2016)
Census Bureau
- National Survey of Children?s Health (April 27,2016)
- Quarterly Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue (May 23, 2016)
- Survey of Income and Program Participation 2014 Panel (SIPP) (May 27, 2016)
Department of Justice
- National Census of Victim Service Providers (April 28, 2016)
Geological Survey
- National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS) (May 23, 2016)
Housing and Urban Development
- Evaluation of the Jobs Plus Pilot Program (April 28, 2016)
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