Examples of data that are already being released in machine-readable form across government.

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What is the percentage change of information the agency publishes online in open, machine-readable formats over the year before?

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The International Civil Aviation Organisation deals not just with air travel, but will also help the new government issue machine-readable passports.

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Most of it is unstructured and stored in a non-machine-readable form (eg, English), which means that it can be read only by humans.

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After months of prevarication, the government meekly gave in a fortnight ago to a demand that the new machine-readable Pakistani passport should note a person's religious status.

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Similarly, the Green Button team at the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institute of Standards and Technology is working collaboratively with industry to enable millions of residential and commercial energy customers to securely download and share their own energy usage data in a standardized human-readable and machine-readable format directly from their utilities.

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These public data resources, made openly available in machine-readable form, include a broad range of useful information—from comparison data about different health insurance plans, to product recall data from the Food and Drug Administration, to epidemiological data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to scientific information from the National Institutes of Health, and much more.

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