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Data.gov.uk versus Data.gov – Which wins?

• danw 17y ago
  Most of what data.gov.uk links to are pdf's, as http://dataformatchecker.heroku.com/ http://dataformatchecker.heroku.com/ has been finding out. The data seems more appropriate for journalists than software developers.
  • ableal 17y ago
    > http://dataformatchecker.heroku.com/ http://dataformatchecker.heroku.com/ Interesting "crowd-sourcing", but is the purpose just to get people involved ? Should be pretty easy to check if it's PDF/HTML/broken/etc with a script, if you've already crawled and fetched the pages. (So I tossed in my click, which made it change from 197 to "only 196 to go" - that few ?)
    • ErrantX 17y ago
      Depends how many have been done so far i guess :)
    • danw 17y ago
      There were 4000 or so when I first saw it last night. Almost there.
  • elblanco 17y ago
    As I've always said "PDFs are bytes, not data. Data can be turned into information, bytes can just be turned into more bytes."
• regularfry 17y ago
  We do, surely?