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This wiki is home to our documentation for Natural Resources Revenue Data and details about the Open Data, Design, and Development (ODDD) Team's processes.
For information about about our other website see our ONRR.gov wiki.

Our working principles are based largely on those of 18F, with whom we partnered on earlier versions of the site between 2014 and 2018.

Our team follows user-centered design and development practices as best we can. We’re always looking for research participants to help us improve the site for users. If you’re interested in participating in a user research interview, please email us at [email protected].

We work in the open, with open-source tools. We believe this approach is a good fit for government. All of our site changes and issues are captured here in our GitHub repository, and anyone can clone our codebase. Our license is Creative Commons and in the public domain.

We work for the people of the United States, and thus believe our product and work processes must be accessible and inclusive to everyone. As a result, accessibility is among our core success metrics.

This site provides open data about natural resource management on federal lands and waters in the United States, including oil, gas, coal, and other extractive industries.

This site is the public, front-facing site for the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR). ONRR collects, accounts for, and verifies energy and mineral revenues. We then distribute the funds to States, American Indians, and the U.S. Treasury. The onrr.gov wiki and repo contains more information about our work.

This site is our team's blog. We share thoughts about our current learnings and projects here. The blog wiki and repo contains more information about our work.

Our team is comprised of:

• product manager (1)
• developer (1)
• user experience designers (2)
• content strategist (1)
• customer experience strategist (1)

Our larger team includes data governance and data management specialists.

We maintain a list of current and past team members and contributors.

More details about our team can be found in the joining our team section of this wiki.

• 2011: The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) entered into the international Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI).
• December 2012: Planning work started to get the U.S. involved with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
• May 2013: The OMB issued an Open Data Policy (M 13-13) requiring government agencies to make datasets open and available to the public and to engage with customers when doing so.
• December 2013: The U.S. submitted an application to participate to the EITI International Board, which was developed by the MSG after engaging with stakeholders across the country.
• July 2014: Kicked off the project with 18F after initial research done by a Presidential Innovation Fellow.
• December 2015: We developed and published the annual USEITI Annual Report was published as an Executive Summary and interactive data website, originally called the U.S. EITI data portal.
• 2015 - 2017: The content of these annual reports (and therefore of the content on the site) was directed by a Multi-Stakeholder Group representing industry, government, and civil society (non-governmental organizations, academia, etc). Read more about the history of the USEITI site. The site served as an interactive annual report for EITI from 2015 to 2017.
• November 2017: The United States withdrew from EITI, but DOI and the Office of Natural Resources Revenue remain strong supporters of good governance and the principles of transparency represented by the EITI. The EITI website was rebranded as Natural Resources Revenue Data portal and work began to bring it internal to ONRR (transitioning from 18F).
• January 2018: The proprietary stats site was decommissioned giving ONRR the ability to open up the data publication process and increasing our internal audience.
• March 2018: The President’s Management Agenda set Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) goals around improving customer experience and using data as an asset.
• Fall 2018: We were fully transitioned from 18F support with a full innovation design team and 3 program analysts.
• December 2018: The 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA) was signed into law requiring government websites to be user-centered, accessible, and mobile friendly.
• 2019: Our team continued to work in the open to make our data publicly available and design with users and training career government team members in digital skills.
• January 2019: The OPEN Government Data Act was signed into law requiring government data to be open, machine-readable, user-centered and tracked using analytics and metrics.
• 2020: We took on a second website, onrr.gov, and commenced work on redesigning this site.
• Fall 2022: The new redesign of onrr.gov launched.
• 2023 forward: We continue to train our career government team members and have augmented our team with interns and contractors (as appropriate).

Our product framing and user-centered design process guide our work.

We work in two-week sprints. You can track what we’re working on now by visiting our milestones.

We welcome contributions to the site. You can add a new issue to make a suggestion or let us know about a bug. We also welcome code contributions in the form of pull requests.