It is the policy of many governments to support transparency with the release of Open Data. But few understand how important it is that this Open Data be released in machine-readable openly available formats. I have already written a lengthly blog post about how most of the time, the CSV standard is the right data standard to use for releasing large open data sets. But really JSON, XML, HTML, RTF, TXT, TSV and PDF files, which are all open standard file formats, each have their place as appropriate data standards for governments to use as they release Open Data.

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