Official data from FederalRegister.gov

[konklone]

This repo is an awesome idea. I do want to point to an official source for agency information:
https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies

The GSA also has one inside this repository, but it's pretty bare by comparison:
https://github.com/GSA/digital-strategy

Is this meant to be more comprehensive/useful than FR's data? Worth combining with theirs?

[JoshData]

No particular point in mind. I had made the file and needed somewhere to put it before I lost it. I'm not actively working on it.

[gregelin]

GSA now offering via an API.

http://www.usa.gov/About/developer-resources/federal-agency-directory/index.shtml

[konklone]

Lots of discussion on this over at the Open Data SE:
http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/1/is-there-a-list-of-all-us-government-agencies-and-sub-agencies-and-is-it-availab

[konklone]

@aaronsnow points out usgovernmentmanual.gov, which has a PDF org chart and list of committees. It is not in data form at all, but I bet they've got better data inside OFR, NARA, and GPO (who jointly administer this manual).

[aaronsnow]

Actually the entire government manual is available in XML. You can download the current (2013) edition, or separately download individual sections, from here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GOVMAN-2013-11-06/content-detail.html . I can't vouch for the quality of the XML, but it is a remarkably comprehensive document.