Format of data releases

2.7 How far data can be easily analysed, reused and linked to other data sets depends on its format. Three-quarters of the 13,000 data resources held on www.data.gov.uk are in a machine-readable, non-proprietary format, meaning that they can be easily reprocessed (Figure 4). Developers advised us that these attributes are sufficient for the majority of tasks they would normally need to undertake to develop applications.