<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Graeme.</div><div><br></div>Even XML is not good enough.š<div>For example, Russian Ministry of Interior published šdatasets as XML files, but XML files are not "machine readable", these XML files šactually are XML spreadsheets, XLS files converted for portability. No XSD schema available and those XML files are not much better than XLS files.<div>
<br></div><div>We need more clear definition not based on formats.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>š šIvan</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/10/4 Graeme Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonesiom@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonesiom@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Just to clarify....<br></div><br>With a corporate register, if the official site it structured HTML and it can be consistently but indirectly accessed if webscraped by <a href="http://opencorporates.com" target="_blank">opencorporates.com</a>, should machine readable be yes?š As a lowest common denominator, I assumed no if you could not directly access data in CSV, XLS.<br>
</div></div><br>What about XML and RSS?<br></div><br></div>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?<br><div><div>
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From: "Andrew Stott" <<a href="mailto:andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com" target="_blank">andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Open-data-census] Dataset Definitons<br>
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....</blockquote><div></div><div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">6. šIs the data machine readable? šIt?s served as structured HTML ? probably yes<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div>Thanks,<br>Graeme Jones<br></div><div><div class="gmail_extra">Country Editor<br>Isle of Man<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/graemejonesiom" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/graemejonesiom</a><br>
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