(a) Within 180 days after June 13, 2022, the County shall prepare and publish a technical standards manual for the publication of public data sets on the single web portal to make public data available to the greatest number of users and for the greatest number of applications.
(b) The manual:
(1) shall use open standards for web publishing and e-government, whenever practicable;
(2) shall identify the reason why each technical standard was selected and to which types of data it applies;
(3) may recommend or require that data be published under more than one technical standard; and
(4) shall include a plan to adopt or utilize a web application programming interface that permits application programs to request and receive public data sets directly from the single web portal.
(c) The County shall update the manual as necessary.
(Bill No. 30-22)