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The Chief Data Officers Council Data Inventory Working Group developed this paper to highlight the value proposition for data inventories and describe challenges agencies may face when implementing and managing comprehensive data inventories. It identifies opportunities agencies can take to overcome some of these challenges and includes a set of recommendations directed at Agencies, OMB, and the CDO Council (CDOC).

This document from the Department of Transportation provides a model plan for conducting data inventory efforts required under OMB Memorandum M-13-13.

The Federal Chief Data Officers Council (CDOC) is pleased to announce the publication of the DCAT-US v3.0 Schema Implementation Guide, an initial resource to help federal agencies implement the DCAT-US Schema v3.0 metadata standard and meet applicable data inventory requirements under Title II of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 Act, also referred to as the Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act, and OMB Memorandum M-25-05. The guide provides practical, best-practice guidance for developing and maintaining data inventories and submitting standardized metadata to Data.gov, including a flexible five-step approach for identifying, inventorying, categorizing, cataloging, and maintaining data assets. Developed through an interagency and cross-council collaboration of the CDOC Customer Experience Working Group, GSA’s Data.gov team, and federal agency representatives, the guide is intended as initial guidance, not a final or static playbook. As agencies gain experience implementing DCAT-USv3.0 Schema, the CDOC looks forward to learning from the federal data community, incorporating emerging best practices and lessons learned, and iterating on the guide through future updates.

The Data.gov Dashboard is a website enabling Federal agencies, industry, and the general public and other stakeholders to view details on how Federal agencies are progressing on implementing the Federal Open Data Policy.

This document focuses on near-term efforts agencies must take to meet the five initial requirements of M-13-13, which were due November 30, 2013.

How to use Project Open Data Metadata Schema guidelines to document and list agency datasets and application programming interfaces (APIs) for hosting at agency.gov/data and currently in use at data.gov

Reference documentation for DCAT-US v3.0, the federal metadata standard for documenting datasets, APIs, and data services. Use this reference to build or validate your agency's data inventory.

Field-level reference for the DCAT-US v3.0 Catalog class. A Catalog is the top-level container for an agency's data inventory.

Further guidance on using the Project Open Data Metadata Schema guidelines to document application programming interfaces (APIs) in data.json files for hosting at agency.gov/data.

Implementation Guide

To improve the discoverability, usability, and governance of these priority agency data assets agencies shall apply the documenting techniques illustrated below.

Provides further background and resources to assist agencies in implementing the Project Open Data Metadata Schema v1.1. Maps fields from the current version of DCAT-US v1.1 to the previous version of the schema (v1.0), as well as other schemas (CKAN API, DCAT, and Schema.org).

A step-by-step guide to updating your existing v1.1 data.json file to be valid against the DCAT-US v3.0 schema.

Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) is a powerful open source data management system that makes data accessible by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding, and using data. The Data.gov catalog is based on CKAN, a technology that powers many government open data sites. Inventory.data.gov is a separate instance of CKAN hosted at GSA on the same infrastructure as the Data.gov catalog.

JSON Validator is used to check your agency’s data.json against the required federal metadata schema.

Inventory.data.gov is a tool for federal agencies to create and publish metadata catalogs. Login.gov is required to access this link.

Office of Management and Budget circular that establishes general policy for the planning, budgeting, governance, acquisition, and management of Federal information, personnel, equipment, funds, IT resources and supporting infrastructure and services. Dated July 28, 2016.

Office of Management and Budget memo that established a framework to help institutionalize the principles of effective information management at each stage of the information's life cycle to promote interoperability and openness. This guidance was rescinded and replaced by OMB M-25-05 on January 15, 2025. Dated May 9, 2013.

DCAT-US 3 / M-25-05 Crosswalk

DCAT-US 3 Schedule, Maintenance, and Release Plan

Guidance on how to tag, list, display, and create linkages for geospatial data between Data.gov and GeoPlatform.gov.

Details on how to get started with using inventory.data.gov, from creating a user account to using its features to manage datasets and export data.json.

A plain-language introduction to how harvest.data.gov works, what it does, and why it matters for federal data publishers.