We're not tracking anything. In fact, metadata and this mapping exercise—and you raise a good point that we'll have to be a lot crisper with our terminology, so thank you—are really about aligning the data standards for how we describe these data sets internationally and ensuring that developers in civil society can mash up open data sets internationally because that's really their value. Be it in health, in environment, in economic terms, or whatever, do we describe this kind of data the same way? Because that is key. That's number one.
Number two, in terms of the number of employees we have doing this at Treasury Board Secretariat, I think it's about 10. That's the extent of our department, but I can guarantee you that we are not over-resourced to do so, and we work with colleagues across the departments and agencies in the federal government who, a lot of times, are not dedicated open data specialists. Quite the contrary, they're working in program areas, and they are doing this because they are equally committed to open data.
In the last point you raised, you highlighted the difference between open data and open information. Open data is not about access to information, although it certainly is in support of accountability and transparency and trust in government. Open data is about making the data that we do collect, this machine-readable fundamental data, available. Open information is about publishing documents or reports online, which would eliminate the need for an access request for those documents or reports.
For instance, right now, and also as part of our open government action plan commitments, we committed to publishing searchable summaries of ATI requests. In fact, ATI request summaries have been available now for over a year, I believe, since we started posting the summaries. People can go to the data sets and read through and select some of them and so on. Open information is another stream of activity in the open government action plan, but it is not the open data.
Open data is really about this great machine-reusable data. In the past, you could have received a data set through an access request; however, you certainly don't need an access request. You can go online anywhere in the world, search through the catalogue as we'll shortly see, and download it to your own computer or PC or your own CD, and work with it as you like.