The Open Data Initiative, an effort to make government data machine-readable and accessible to all citizens.
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 first is a matrix of miniscule dots on the page, which will make each photographed page more easily machine-readable.
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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.
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.
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.
Recognizing that simply publishing snapshots of government information is not enough to make it open, we need to improve the quality, accessibility, timeliness, and usability of our data and content through well-defined standards that include the use of machine-readable formats such as web APIs and common metadata tagging schemas.
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.
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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In finance, standards can take years to define as working groups from banks, securities firms and depositories meet repeatedly to hash out what needs to be in a message and ways to make it machine-readable so the communication can be handled by computers with straight-through processing (STP) and not require any expensive, time-consuming and error-inducing human intervention.
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