The following is from the 8 principles and the group’s wiki work following their meeting. New annotations are in white boxes.

Government data shall be considered open if it is made public in a way that complies with the principles below:

Complete All public data is made available. Public data is data that is not subject to valid privacy, security or privilege limitations. While non-electronic information resources, such as physical artifacts, are not subject to the Open Government Data principles, it is always encouraged that such resources be made available electronically to the extent feasible. This principle also appears in... Sunlight Foundation Open Data Policy Guidelines (2012) (“Publish Bulk Data”)

Primary Data is as collected at the source, with the highest possible level of granularity, not in aggregate or modified forms. If an entity chooses to transform data by aggregation or transcoding for use on an Internet site built for end users, it still has an obligation to make the full-resolution information available in bulk for others to build their own sites with and to preserve the data for posterity. This principle also appears in... White House M-13-13 (2013) (“Complete”)

Timely Data is made available as quickly as necessary to preserve the value of the data. This principle also appears in... White House M-13-13 (2013)

Accessible Data is available to the widest range of users for the widest range of purposes. Data must be made available on the Internet so as to accommodate the widest practical range of users and uses. This means considering how choices in data preparation and publication affect access to the disabled and how it may impact users of a variety of software and hardware platforms. Data must be published with current industry standard protocols and formats, as well as alternative protocols and formats when industry standards impose burdens on wide reuse of the data. Data is not accessible if it can be retrieved only through navigating web forms, or if automated tools are not permitted to access it because of a robots.txt file, other policy, or technological restrictions. This principle also appears in... Open Definition (2005) (“Access”, “Absense of Technological Restriction”) White House M-13-13 (2013) (“Accessible”)