Clay Johnson has a new post arguing that PDFs do not allow for truly transparent access because of its proprietary format. From the post:
Flash isn’t off the hook either. Government has spent lots of time and money developing flash tools to allow citizens to view charts and graphs online, and while we’re happy the government is interested in allowing citizens to do this, Government’s primary method of disclosure should not be these visualizations, but rather publishing the APIs and datasets that allow citizens to make their own.
Thanks to Christine Geith for the link.
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