Open Data Formats in Minnesota

A bill has been introduced in the Minesota House of Representatives ( lower house ) to require the state agencies to use open data formats.

The most interesting bits of the bill are these underscored clause ( amends the statute ) :

(1) is free for all to implement and use in perpetuity, with no royalty or fee;
(4) has a specification available for all to read, in a human-readable format, written
in commonly accepted technical language;
(5) is documented, so that anyone can write software that can read and interpret the
complete semantics of any data file stored in the data format;

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