[od-discuss] [okfn-discuss] Open Definition 2.1 final draft

Tue Jul 28 19:49:23 UTC 2015

On 07/28/2015 12:44 PM, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
>> Adding "Data must be machine readable" to the end of 1.3 sounds fine to
>> me. Let's do that.
> 
> Looks like superfluous jargon to me:
> 
> - the underlying issue of works being provided in a manner that the work
> in question can be easily processed and manipulated is not specific to
> data (even from a data-centric worldview, eg to mine data from 'content')
> 
> - machine-readability is not defined (with respect to what? eg a bitmap
> image is read by a machine, even if it is encodes a scan of 'data' from
> a printout)

I meant to add

- 'must be provided in an open format' (followed by brief definition)
and 'should be provided in the form preferred for making modifications
to it' suffer from neither of these problems; they are general and with
respect to the work in question.

- I'd be happy to see 'should be provided in the form preferred for
making modifications to it' become a must and be broken into its own
item, 1.4

Mike