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Minnesota
1/18/2007 -St. Paul, Minnesota
In its 2007 session the Minnesota House of Representatives is again reviewing legislation that mandates the use of certain data formats by government entities. House File 176 was introduced January 17, 2007. This new bill represents a significant departure from a bill introduced last year and focuses on specific technologies, such as XML and spreadsheets.
The two bills can be found at the following:
H.F. 176 -introduced 1/17/2007
H.F. 3971 -introduced 3/27/2006
Editor's note: A founding partner at Acumetric was involved with the legislative effort in Minnesota in 2006 as a subject matter expert in data format management of government data.
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Article in Popular Mechanics highlights U.S. Navy encounters with bad data formats:
