Documents/G8ODC/3: Usability/3.1: Open Formats

3.1: Open Formats

make data available in convenient open formats

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make data available in convenient open formats to ensure files can be easily retrieved, downloaded, indexed, and searched by all commonly used Web search applications. Open formats, for example non-proprietary CSV files, are ones where the specification for the format is available to anyone for free, thereby allowing the data contained in a file to be opened by different software programmes.

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