Observed arrival · 2026-10-14
GovDataHub watches the licenses behind open datasets
GovDataHub presents a catalog of government datasets and monitoring services for changes, broken links, and license status.
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- Teams building products on open government datasets
- Worth noticing
- The page says datasets outside its named license allow-list are quarantined rather than silently cleared.
Field notes
The catalog is described as CSV and JSON, divided into climate and energy, economy and small business, and general collections. Its named source list includes data.gov, Socrata, Zenodo, Hugging Face, EIA, and FRED; the page says non-allow-listed licenses are quarantined. A free Risk Check accepts up to 20 dataset names or URLs, with a written report promised within five days.
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