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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 9-7 Program implementation and governance.">
  <section prefix="§" num="9-7" heading="Program implementation and governance.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">The Chief Data Officer shall work with the City’s agencies and officials to:<para num="(1)">identify for each agency a lead open data coordinator who will be responsible for managing that agency’s participation in the Open Data Program;</para>
      <para num="(2)">establish a comprehensive inventory of datasets held by each agency and to be published on the Open Data Portal and regularly updated;</para>
      <para num="(3)">develop and implement a process for determining the relative level of risk and public benefit associated with potentially sensitive, non-protected information, so as to make a determination about whether and how to publish that information;</para>
      <para num="(4)">develop and implement a process for prioritizing the publication of datasets on the Open Data Portal, taking into account:<para num="(i)">new and existing signals of interest from the public (such as the frequency of Public Information Act  requests);</para>
        <para num="(ii)">the City’s programmatic priorities;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">existing opportunities for data use in the public interest; and</para>
        <para num="(iv)">cost;</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(5)">establish processes for publishing datasets on the Open Data Portal, including processes for ensuring that datasets are reviewed for use-appropriate formats, quality, timeliness, and exclusion of protected and sensitive information;</para>
      <para num="(6)">develop and routinely update a public timeline for new dataset publication; and</para>
      <para num="(7)">ensure that published datasets are available for bulk download.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Feedback and collaboration.">In order to increase and improve use of the City’s open data, the Chief Data Officer shall actively encourage agency and public participation by providing regular opportunities for feedback and collaboration.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-463</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
