New government data site
The US government gathers all sorts of statistics and data and makes much of it available to the public in various formats. To make the data easily read by computers, there is a new site called Data.gov. It is described by The New York Times:
But Data.gov is different. It is primarily for machines, not people, at least as a first step. It is a catalog of various sets of data from government agencies.
And the idea is to offer the data in one of several standardized formats, ranging from a simple text file that can be read by a spreadsheet program to the XML format widely used these days for the exchange of information between Web services. Other data is presented in formats that are meant to feed into mapping programs.
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