The fact is, sticking to open, standards based technologies like HTML, XML, JSON and others are far more important and useful in getting your information out to the public than the proprietary formats of Adobe. Here’s a hint– if the data format has an ® by its name, it probably isn’t great for transparency or open data.

via Sunlight Labs: Blog – Adobe is Bad for Open Government.

Here is a link to the 8 principles of open data.

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