The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 requires the government to publish a detailed accounting of federal spending in uniform, machine-readable format on the USAspending.gov website, so the government is trying to get agencies on the same page when it comes to standards for that data.
According to a report from the Government Accountability Office released Jan. 29, some of the standardized data element definitions offered by the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget are potentially unclear and inconsistent, and they leave too much room for interpretation.
