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

[Jose M. Alonso]

El 08/09/2012, a las 15:11, stef escribió:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 01:35:08PM +0530, neeta wrote:
>> 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)
> 
> talking about formats, can anyone please liberate the data from excel to some less closed format.

and can we stop calling xlsx a closed format, please?
Not that I'm a big fan of how OOXML [1] was standardized but it's an ECMA and ISO standard, i.e. open enough.

Josema

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

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