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

[James McKinney]

On 2013-06-21, at 4:19 PM, Immanuel Giulea wrote:

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> 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.
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> The only open format is ODF as introduced by OASIS.

?? ODF is not the only open format. Office Open XML (.xlsx etc.) is also an open format standardized by Ecma, ISO and IEC. Not saying one is better than the other, just saying they are both open. (Now, you can argue whether one is "more" open than another...)

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