[open-government] More than eightly formats for open

Sat Sep 8 11:11:00 UTC 2012

Lewis,

> If you get on to the OASIS site you may find a working group already dedicated to open data exchange (and therefore representation).

Not sure what you are referring to. Maybe you mean [1], which is MS OData [2], which in turn is Atom/APP?

Nevertheless, IMO, no standardisation effort, neither OData nor W3C's RDF will ever make all the formats in use go away. Why? Because they are useful, usable or simply simple.

Thank you, Neeta, for your research and KUTGW!

Cheers,
Michael

[1] https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/odata
[2] http://odata.org

On 8 Sep 2012, at 11:14, "McGibbney, Lewis John" <Lewis.McGibbney at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi neeta,
> 
> If you get on to the OASIS site you may find a working group already dedicated to open data exchange (and therefore representation).
> 
> https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/
> 
> hth
> 
> Lewis
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> From: neeta <neeta at nic.in>
> Subject: [open-government] More than eightly formats for open
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> I have done a small study to understand the kind of data formats acceptable
> by different govt  data portals worldwide..
> and was surprised to find that there are more than 80 formats..(excel sheet enclosed for details)
> 
> while i understand, it is possible to convert many of these formats from one to other
> still it is a kind of inconvenience or an extra effort !
> 
> should we not work towards some sort of standardization or atleast shorten the list of data formats
> may be within ten?
> 
> --
> neeta verma
> senior technical director
> data centre & web services division
> national informatics centre, India
> http://india.gov.in
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