Federal Register XML format will increase usability, save money

The Federal Register is now available in XML, which many analysts say will make it much easier to use. Carl Malamund is a technologist, author, and an advocate of making public data publicly available. He runs a non-profit foundation called public.Resource.org. "By making the data available in bulk, it means we're going to get a lot of grad students and small businesses and others working with the Federal Register and all our other legal materials and making them easier to use," he said.

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