[open-government] More than eightly formats for open government data

[stef]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 03:12:49PM +0530, neeta wrote:
> 1. while structure formats from where data could be easily extracted or converted to other format is ok (still if we could reduce this list to 10.. would be good!)
> but when we start publishing in unstructured formats such as HTML, PDF  etc.. it may become very difficult to extract data from them

html can be very structured and useful. the quality depends on the author not
the format. however i agree that pdf is the tool of the devil (and the
printing industry)

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