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Wednesday, 7th October 2009

Federal Register XML Rormat Will Increase Usability, Accessibility and Save Money

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Note: In addition to the text, this article includes a 6.5 minutes audio interview with Carl Malamund. You can listen online or download the mp3 file.

The Federal Register is now available in XML, which many analysts say will make it much easier to use.

Carl Malamund is a technologist, author, and an advocate of making public data publicly available. He runs a non-profit foundation called

On Tuesday's Daily Debrief, he talked more about the fact that the new XML format saves the federal government money and improves the public's access to government data.

"by making the data available in bulk, it means we're going to get a lot of grad students and small businesses and others working with the Federal Register and all our other legal materials and making them easier to use."

This, he added, is good for government, because it will lead to more efficiency and will get the information out to a wider audience.

Source: Federal News Radio
Hat Tip: P.W.

See Also: Federal Register User? Check Out GovPulse.us, An Award Winning App

For much of its existence the Federal Register has had no easily accessible form. govpulse seeks to change this and enable you to respond to your government. We give you a way to browse the Register (from 1994 on) and use filters to decide what is important to you. And then act on it.

See Also: For More About Carl Malamund and Some of the Resources Public.Resource.org Provides See This Post From September 29th


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