[OpenSpending] Formats for government budget data?

Thu Jan 24 16:16:12 UTC 2013

2013/1/24 José Félix Ontañon <fontanon at emergya.com>:
>
> Nice to see you found XBRL helpful: XBRL fits rather well for governments
> due to the fact that several use cases in public administration could be
> found.
> But I would still take Friedrich's advice, though: expressing XBRL could be
> a pain to build and parse.

Sorry if I was unclear. I think XBRL is difficult to use because of
the need for a specific profile. From a transparency perspective we
should make sure budget expenditure data was easy to publish in a well
documented format.

Regards,

Peter