[Open-data-census] machine readable definition

Fri Oct 4 14:36:07 BST 2013

Hi Grame,

HTML, even well structured would not count as machine-readable (in my
opinion). CSV, XML, XLS etc would count (RSS wouldn't normally pass the
bulk condition - or even the condition of getting full access to the DB so
I'm not sure it is relevant - RSS is an update format not a data
transmission format).

An API might well count for machine-readable (though probably not for bulk)
but it would have to provided by the official source (see the notice at the
top of the submission making clear that the questions relate to the
officially provided source - not data provided by the third-parties even if
derived from the official source).

Rufus

On 4 October 2013 13:50, Graeme Jones <jonesiom at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to clarify....
>
> With a corporate register, if the official site it structured HTML and it
> can be consistently but indirectly accessed if webscraped by
> opencorporates.com, should machine readable be yes?  As a lowest common
> denominator, I assumed no if you could not directly access data in CSV, XLS.
>
> What about XML and RSS?
>
> Is an API without a public website yes even though it is not actually that
> "open" to the general public and only presented by third parties?
>
> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 20:07:13 +0100
>> From: "Andrew Stott" <andrew.stott at dirdigeng.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Open-data-census] Dataset Definitons
>> To: "'amin khechine'" <aminkhechine at yahoo.fr>,  "'open-data-census'"
>>         <open-data-census at lists.okfn.org>
>> Message-ID: <009d01cec06b$c4d80c50$4e8824f0$@dirdigeng.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>> ....
>
> 6.  Is the data machine readable?  It?s served as structured HTML ?
>> probably yes
>>
>
> Thanks,
> Graeme Jones
> Country Editor
> Isle of Man
> www.linkedin.com/in/graemejonesiom
>
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