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+ What is this?
+Disclosr is a project to monitor Australian Federal Government agencies
+compliance with their "proactive disclosure requirements".
+OGRE (Open Government Realization Evaluation) is a ranking of compliance with these requirements.
+Prometheus is the agent which polls agency websites to assess compliance.
-Organisational Data Sources
+ Open everything
+all documents released CC-BY 3 AU
+Open source git @
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+Organisational Data Sources
http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Browse/Results/ByTitle/AdministrativeArrangementsOrders/Current/Ad/0 defines departments
Agencies can be found in the Schedule to an Appropriation Bill (budget), Schedule to FMA Regulations and/or Public Service Act.
-http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/flipchart/docs/FMACACFlipchart.pdf summarises these
+http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/flipchart/docs/FMACACFlipchart.pdf summarises these. view-source:https://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.advancedsearch.home is great for the suspended/active status
When defining the hierachy, this system is designed towards monitoring accountablity. Thus large agencies that have registered their own ABN
and have their own accountablity mechanisms/website recieve a seperate record as a child of their department.
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As agencies themselves shift between departments, there may be scope for providing time ranges but typically the newest hierarchy will be the one recorded.
A department/agency name will be the newest active name assigned to that ABN.
+ABN information is derived from the ABR. This is the definitive umpire about which former name should be linked to which current name.
+For example "Department of Transport and Regional Services" became "Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government" (same ABN)
+however it later split into "Department of Infrastructure and Transport" (same ABN)
+and "Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government" (new ABN).
+
Statistical information from http://www.apsc.gov.au/stateoftheservice/1011/statsbulletin/section1.html#t2total https://www.apsedii.gov.au/apsedii/CustomQueryx33.shtml
+and individual annual reports.
-Open Government Scoring
+Open Government Scoring
+1 point for every true Has... attribute
-1 point for every false Has... (ie. Has Not) attribute
+Don't like this? Make your own score, suggest a better scoring mechanism.
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