Examples of data that are already being released in machine-readable form across government.

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Most of it is unstructured and stored in a non-machine-readable form (eg, English), which means that it can be read only by humans.

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These public data resources, made openly available in machine-readable form, include a broad range of useful information from comparison data about different health insurance plans, to product recall data from the Food and Drug Administration, to epidemiological data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to scientific information from the National Institutes of Health, and much more.

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