On 20 May 2009, at 11:41, Owen Blacker wrote:

> Does any other body have a standardised structure for expense  
> reporting — Scottish Parliament, Congress etc?
>
> Could we put together a relatively quick howto on how to release  
> them in such a format?

XRBL is quite a well known XML format for this kind of thing, and  
there's a MF for it:

http://razor.occams.info/blog/category/civichacking/
http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-formats

Libby

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> 2009/5/20 Tom Steinberg <[email protected]>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm just noticing that a number of MPs are starting to put up their
> own expenses online, normally on their own blogs or websites.
>
> These are separate from those which Parliament is supposed to release
> some time soon.
>
> We're somewhat in danger of seeing a new explosion in incompatible,
> non standard, non comparable data.
>
> I don't really have an answer about what to do here, but I just wanted
> to float the issue.
>
> Tom
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