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added by Will Koper Apr 9 '13 at 22:31

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added by mlissner Mar 16 '13 at 0:36

Do you mean standards re. format of legal opinions themselves or of how they are stored/indexed as data? – batpigandme Mar 29 '13 at 23:25

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added by Will Koper Apr 9 '13 at 22:39

Broad question, though one I''ve been looking into? Perhaps "What data might I ask for from a law enforcement agency to get information on its helicopter flights and fleet?" Answers could then be types of records kept? – Chris Keller Apr 10 '13 at 3:34

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added by Ryan Panchadsaram Feb 22 '13 at 17:38

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added by Ian Kalin Feb 22 '13 at 22:26

<comments removed> Please do not use comments to answer these questions. This proposal is not part of a Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define what is on and off topic for a site. Comments are here to help improve the questions; not to answer them. See What is the rationale for deleting answers? Thank you. – Robert Cartaino Apr 1 '13 at 19:20

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added by Ian Kalin Feb 23 '13 at 18:40

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added by Marina Martin Mar 3 '13 at 2:37

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added by mlissner Mar 16 '13 at 0:38

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added by Andy Shu Xin Apr 5 '13 at 19:24

	Definitely a FAQ. No simple answer; best answer may be "what do you want to DO, exactly?" – Jonathan Stray Apr 9 '13 at 21:24
	@Jonathan Stray I can think of a rephrase: "I know nothing about programming. What do I miss?" – Andy Shu Xin Apr 10 '13 at 11:35

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added by urschrei Apr 9 '13 at 21:27

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added by Will Koper Apr 9 '13 at 22:42

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added by boisvert Apr 10 '13 at 10:02

I'm not sure this is in the scope of the proposal because most other questions seem to concern use, rather than publication, of open data. Though @boisvert raised an important issue here, namely abuse or unintended use of open data. – Andy Shu Xin Apr 10 '13 at 10:56

@andy-shu-xin, maybe my question is poorly worded. But there's one on publication - "I’m liberating data for my city..." which is among the most highly voted, and no-one commented on it being off topic. It's also my impression (from working with a lobby group in the UK) that publishers of data need help from the community as much as consumers of it, if they are to do it well at all. – boisvert Apr 10 '13 at 12:04

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added by Ian Kalin Feb 24 '13 at 16:08

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added by Marina Martin Mar 3 '13 at 2:39

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added by Marina Martin Mar 3 '13 at 2:39

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added by mlissner Mar 16 '13 at 0:38

	An interesting question, but a bit broad. The answer can only be "it depends... but not PDF, and preferably with an API" – Jonathan Stray Apr 6 '13 at 16:45
	What if we worded it this way: "what quality criteria should a government data dump try to fulfill?" - this is more likely to have objective answers, and where there are differences, accommodate them. – boisvert Apr 10 '13 at 12:07

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added by LAB Mar 21 '13 at 22:59

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added by LAB Mar 21 '13 at 23:09

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added by Jonathan Stray Apr 9 '13 at 21:26

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added by Andy Shu Xin Apr 10 '13 at 11:42

It's not a well-formed question but I guess it could be an FAQ. Feel free to downvote if you don't think this is where it belong. – Andy Shu Xin Apr 10 '13 at 11:45