The Internet Archive, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, the National Science Foundation, and the governments of India and China, have been working on the "Million Book Project," which, when complete, will offer free access to a fully-readable online library of one million digitized books.
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the United States federal government.
This service provides machine-readable access to the Center's collections data.
The most inflammatory part of the effort has been India's threat to block encrypted BlackBerry services, widely used by corporations, unless phone companies provide access to the data in a readable format.
Their call was repeated earlier this week by UK Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, who said intelligence services must be able to access readable data from apps such as end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp, asserting: "There should be no place for terrorists to hide".
To support these efforts, access to collection data in a machine-readable format is available.
The key provides access to OceanStore directories that map human-readable names (such as "internet.draft") to fragment ID codes.
On February 13 , 2019 Rep. Collins (R-GA) introduced the Electronic Court Records Reform Act (H.R. 1164) to enable free public access to federal court records in machine-readable form via PACER.
Access, Portability and Sharing the Wealth: Provide individuals with access to their data in a machine-readable, usable format, and allow them to take advantage of applications to analyze their own data and draw useful conclusions.
What if, instead of that tedious and/or tortuous process, web users could gain real-time access to their personal data in a machine readable format as a matter of course?
