Data.gov Concept of Operations and Case Study available
The Harvard Business School (HBS) case study [1.5 MB, PDF] on Data.gov, presented by HBS Assistant Professor Karim Lakhani, Ph.D. at the International Open Government Data Conference is now available at data.gov. This case study is free for government use.
The Data.gov Concept of Operations [4 MB, PDF], which was released at the Conference, represents the vision for the future of Data.gov and Open Data for the Federal Government. The document is also available at data.gov.
Both documents provide an excellent and insightful coverage of Data.gov, from its origins to its possible future. As described by Vivek Kundra in a quote from the Case Study (at p 15):
Data.gov makes sure we don't get a government that's closed, secret, and opaque, that's become corrupt, that rots from the inside because only a few people have access to good information and they use it for their own self-interested purposes. And then, of course, there's innovation. We can drive innovation. We can spur innovation in ways we can't even imagine today. Not just in government, but also throughout business and society as a whole.