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Response from Jennifer Fowler re: FloridaHasARightToKnow.com 12/3/2013
Questions for the Subject Matter Experts
(Responses Provided by the Office of Fiscal Accountability and Regulatory Reform)
When did you start your transparency site?
 2011.
Who is the target audience?
 The general public.
Why did you start your transparency website and why is it important to your audience?
 Governor Scott established Florida Has a Right to Know as an information source for the taxpayer.
Where is the source of the data?
 OFARR, various agencies, and DMS.
Do you correlate the data you receive?
 No.
Do you enhance, enrich, clean or limit the data in any way?
 No.
Is the data real time, or is it refreshed? How often?
 Data from the Existing Rules Analysis Dashboard is refreshed daily.
 Data on proposed rule and regulations is refreshed weekly.
 Data on payroll information is refreshed weekly.
 Data on the state university system is refreshed twice annually.
 Data from the State Board of Administration is refreshed quarterly.
What would you do differently if you were to start today?
 We have not contemplated potential changes to the website.
What would you like to see in a consolidated system?
 We have not contemplated potential changes to the website.
Are there any limitations to your ability to achieve what you’d like to see (i.e. statutory changes)?
 We have not contemplated potential changes to the website.
Questions for the technical website managers
(Responses provided by Department of Management Services)
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What format is your data in? (EX: PDF, XML, etc.)
 The site is built with straight HTML code.
 Data is provided by EoG, SUS, and State Board of Administration in PDF and XLS formats.
 The data provided to the State of Florida Employee Salaries web application @
http://dmssalaries.herokuapp.com/salaries is drawn from the PeopleFirst data warehouse.
How often is this data updated?
 EOG sends updates to Regulation and Rulemaking each Friday
 State Pensions info is updated annually
 The update schedule to State Payroll is communicated @
http://www.floridahasarighttoknow.com/search_state_payroll.html
Is there an API for this data?
 No, there is no application interface; with the exception of the integration package that pulls data from
the PeopleFirst data warehouse, updates are sent via e-mail to the DMS HelpDesk @
AppsHelp@mydmsservices.com
Please send a report on what people search for on your website.
 This information is not available
Have you looked into using an open data vendor to make this data more easily accessible and ability to
manipulate?
 An on-going discussion of moving the content to the DMS Content Management System has been
proposed as a reasonable solution; The DMS Content Management system is driven by the Community
edition of EZPublish and is used to support DMS.MyFlorida.com and
http://www.floridagovernorsmansion.com/.
Please send an analytical report (derived from a tool such as Google Analytics, WebLog, etc.) showing traffic
for all pages on your site.
 Attached are 2 reports from Google Analytics for period October 1 to present.
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