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

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Most of what data.gov.uk links to are pdf's, as http://dataformatchecker.heroku.com/ has been finding out. The data seems more appropriate for journalists than software developers.

> 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 ?)

There were 4000 or so when I first saw it last night. Almost there.

Depends how many have been done so far i guess :)

As I've always said "PDFs are bytes, not data. Data can be turned into information, bytes can just be turned into more bytes."

We do, surely?

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