[CivicAccess-discuss] DIG - Data Independence Guidelines

[Karl Dubost]

Glen,

Le 17 mai 2011 à 09:18, Glen Newton a écrit :
> As far as I can tell, I don't see 'data independence' defined in any
> of your documents.
> I think this would be helpful.

Good point. Would you create an issue :)
https://github.com/karlcow/Data-Independence-Guidelines/issues/new
List of previous issues.
https://github.com/karlcow/Data-Independence-Guidelines/issues

> As someone who has spent 20+ years working in IT and data (big,

As someone who has spent 15+ years working in Web standards and data ;)

> science, business, other), I have never encountered the term 'data
> independence' used in the way you _appear_ to be using it.
> The wikipedia definition appears to be different from what you are
> referring to: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Data_independence

Partly. A standardized format helps move data around and makes it easier for people to develop tools to import/export. They free the data from the software or material structure. 
http://www.la-grange.net/2011/05/16/freedata/data-independence#data-export-format



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Karl Dubost
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