Australian Stats Agency Goes Open Source

jimboh2k writes "The Australian Bureau of Statistics will use the 2011 Census of Population and Housing as a dry run for XML-based open source standards DDI and SDMX in a bid to make for easier machine-to-machine data, allowing users to better search for and access census datasets. The census will become the first time the open standards are used by an Australian Federal Government agency."

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Re:XML? that's so 1990

[goombah99]

To see how clean YAML is to reads for humans and to parse by machine look at a Sample Document. And here's something truly impressive, a Yaml Quick reference card written entirely in YAML itself. Not only is it a marvelously short card, it's human and machine readable. It's a superset of JSON too.