Über den Versuch von Adobe sich als strategischer Partner für die Open Government Bemühungen in den USA zu inszenieren und die Kritik der Sunlight Foundation daran, schreibt Clay Johnson: Adobe is Bad for Open Government
So next week, Adobe’s having aconference here to tell Federal employees why they ought to be using “Adobe PDF, and Adobe® Flash® technology” to make government more open. They’ve spent what seems to be millions of dollars wrapping buses in DC with Adobe marketing materials all designed to tell us how necessary Adobe products are to Obama’s Open Government Initiative. They’ve even got a beautiful website set up to tout the government’s use of Flash and PDF, and are holding a conference here next week to talk about how Government should use ubiquitous and secure technologies to make government more open and interactive.
Here at the Sunlight Foundation, we spend a lot of time with Adobe’s products– mainly trying to reverse the damage that these technologies create when government discloses information. The PDF file format, for instance, isn’t particularly easily parsed. As ubiquitous as a PDF file is, often times they’re non-parsable by software, unfindable by search engines, and unreliable if text is extracted.
In diesem Zusammenhang möchte ich auf einen Artikel von Kirrily Robert hinweisen in dem sie sich mit dem Problem von unklaren Spezifikation für Datenformaten in Opengovernment Projekten auseinandersetzt: “Open government and parsable data formats“. Am Beispiel von Recovery.gov macht sie deutlich, dass Regierungsdaten manchmal formal und theoretisch offen sind, sich aber nicht effektiv abfragen (parsen) lassen. Sie kommt zu dem Schluss, das Daten dann eigentlich nicht als “Opendata” bezeichnet werden können. Und führt dazu die Open Data Principles der Open Government Working Group heran.
Raymond has blogged on several occasions about the lack of clarity in Recovery.gov data format specifications and the difficulty in working with data that is theoretically open but impossible to query effectively.
To my mind, if you can’t readily query against the data, it’s not really open. It’s just standing a little way out of your reach, waving and taunting. The folks at the Open Government Working Group agree. Their Open Data Principles say:
5. Machine processable
Data are reasonably structured to allow automated processing.
Siehe auch den Artikel bei Free Our Data: PDFs are bad for open government, says Sunlight Foundation in US
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