[open-government] [School-of-data] question city council data (Diane Mercier)

[Immanuel Giulea]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:42 PM, James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca> wrote:

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> On 2013-06-21, at 2:49 PM, Immanuel Giulea wrote:
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> Also to be noted is that XLS is not an open format. It's proprietary.
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> Old versions of Excel were proprietary, but since 2006 the Microsoft
> Office suite uses Office Open XML, which is an open standard, and includes
> .xlsx, .docx and .pptx files http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
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Sure, we can play on words.
XLS is proprietary. XLSX uses XML.

The only open format is ODF as introduced by OASIS.
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