Recent laws have strengthened the government’s data transparency, but the true utility of agencies' information lies in its ability to be shared, officials said.

The open data taxonomy bill is back after time ran out on it in the Senate in the 115th Congress.

A new report measures the site against five "key practices" for true transparency in government data.

The report found only six of the 24 CFO Act agencies were able to supply “complete, timely, accurate or of quality,” information as part of the DATA Act.

Data standardization could make the grants process more transparent, but there are still a lot of details for agencies to sort through.

Data Lab aims to provide a comfortable point of entry to USAspending.gov's wealth of government expenditure data.