Digital Accountability and Transparency Act

December 2014Art Nicewick

a.nicewick@cgifederal.com

DATA Act Overview

Amends the Federal Funding Accountability and

Transparency Act of 2006

Establish government-wide data standards for financial

data

Pilot to simplify reporting for entities receiving federal funds

Improve the quality of data submitted to USASpending.gov

Apply approaches developed by the Recovery Accountability

and Transparency Board

Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act was signed into legislation on May 9, 2014. The purpose of the act is to:

Key Components

Creates transparency for all federal funds

Sets government-wide Financial Data Standards

Reduces recipient reporting requirements

Improves data quality

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Incentive ?• Treasury• Agency• Politician • Consultant • Individual• Business case ($$$$)

AI, Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Data Analytics, Grid, Cluster Computing, Desktop Clusters, …

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DATA Standards (Layers) Standard Type Description Examples

Data Usage Standard “How to define a program in a consistent Manner?”

Publication and Training

Authoritative Source Standard

Lookup Tables, Single Source

DUNS, LEI, Treasury Shared Modules (GL_ACCOUNT, ..) ,

Data Element Standard Character Lengths, Field Names, …

GTAS, FAADS, CGAC, USGAAP-XBRL

Programming Access Standard

Transport processes, Validation processes, Extensibility processes

XBRL, RDF\XML , ODATA, JSON-LD, XBRL-LG

File Formatting Standard File Formats XML, JSON, CSV, Fixed

Data exchange standard Provide means for remote systems\users to get data

REST, WS-*, HTML, FTP

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DATA Act – Initial Goal

DATA Act – Long Term goal

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Technologies

• XBRL• Semantic Web• ODATA• Transformation Software• Rules

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Other Topics \ What about

• Documents– CMIS \ Dbpedia

• Email– Mining \ Data \ sentiment

• Retirement Tsunami – Hmm

• Excel \ Access \ Filemaker – Non CIO systems– RAD

• IOT– RFID– Sensors