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<entry-title>Comma Separated Values (CSV)</entry-title>  | |||
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CSV files are commonly used to share open data (e.g.open government data), and while easy to generate, present many challenges for both users who wish to casually view or browse such data, as well as developers who wish to parse and consume the data for applications.  | |||
It may be possible to develop (semi-)automated methods for processing CSV files (or portions thereof) into both a human-friendly web-browsable semantic HTML5 + microformats view, and a pure programmer API consumption JSON view.  | |||
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<entry-title>Comma Separated Values (CSV)</entry-title>
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CSV files are commonly used to share open data (e.g.open government data), and while easy to generate, present many challenges for both users who wish to casually view or browse such data, as well as developers who wish to parse and consume the data for applications.
It may be possible to develop (semi-)automated methods for processing CSV files (or portions thereof) into both a human-friendly web-browsable semantic HTML5 + microformats view, and a pure programmer API consumption JSON view.