It is observed that Government web sites tend to be slow, clunky, and far behind their private-sector counterparts. A new paper from researchers at Princeton University suggest that government officials abandon the dream of developing usable web sites, and instead focus on providing raw public data such as regulatory decisions, Congressional votes, and campaign finance data in open, structured formats such as RSS and XML. This raw data would be made freely available to anyone, and could be used for any purpose. According to Princeton researchers David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William Zeller, and Ed Felten, once the private sector has been relieved of the irritating task of manually scraping data from government web sites, a proliferation of user-friendly sites will allow people to sort, search, and analyse the data in a variety of ways.
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