Timeline for What does "structured, commonly used and machine-readable format" look like in practice?
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| Aug 19, 2020 at 9:06 | answer | added | amon | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 12:40 | answer | added | Matthew | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 12:36 | comment | added | Polygnome | There are a gazillion reasons not to give an outsider inside knowledge of the workings of your business applications. I wouldn't ever make my schema public. Dumping from a database to XML or CSV is pretty easy and straight-forward, that is why I chose those formats as examples ;) | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 12:31 | comment | added | Dave | I had thought that since the data is not inherently rectangular tabular structure would not be the obvious choice. I agree XML would work, but would require a data conversion layer. If the data is in a database I assumed the easiest way would be a database extract, but ICBW. | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 12:02 | comment | added | Polygnome | " Assuming there is a database underlying the application I would expect it to be a DDL of the database structure, and the relevant insert statements. ". That might be a bit much to ask, but CSV (or tab separated) and XML files would likely also work. Expecting them to give you their schema is a bit much. Images on the other hand are ridiculous. They do not contain the information you requested in a structured, machine-readable format. they contain different (graphical) information. | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 10:57 | history | asked | Dave | CC BY-SA 4.0 |