Adobe Pushing For Flash and PDF In Open Government Initiative

angryrice tips news that Adobe seems to be campaigning for the inclusion of Flash and PDF in the Obama administration's efforts at increasing government transparency and openness. A post from the Sunlight Labs blog is critical of Adobe's undertaking, in part since PDF is often "non-parsable by software, unfindable by search engines, and unreliable if text is extracted." They also say government's priority should be to publish datasets and the APIs to interact with them, rather than choosing how they're displayed in fancy graphs and charts.

Tremor

[sleeponthemic]

They also say government's priority should be to publish datasets and the APIs to interact with them, rather than choosing how they're displayed in fancy graphs and charts.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of IT workers suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

Re:The future is ODF and html5

[oldspewey]

This sort of authoring is easily handled in vi - or emacs - your choice.

Re:PDF bad. Work on microformats please.

[Stormwatch]

It is a potable typeset document package.

So you can drink a PDF?!