[open-government] Definition of machine readability?

[Jonathan Gray]

Does anyone know of a good working definition of machine readability?
Something we hear very often in relation to opening up government data
-- but something I've more often heard illustrated (databases, PDFs,
etc) than defined (e.g. criteria). Feel like necessary/sufficient
conditions might be tough. Any ideas?

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Jonathan Gray

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