Could stats benefit from JSON as an exchange format?

From: http://json-stat.org/

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'announcements': '@jsonstat',

'discuss': 'https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/json-stat',

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The main statistical standards for data and metadata exchange are XML-based (DDI, SDMX, or its semantic siblings: SCoVo/SDMX-RDF...): they are usually complicated and verbose: probably not best suited as an exchange format for apps.

Could stats benefit from JSON as an exchange format? How should data and metadata be expressed?

The goal of json-stat.org is to define a JSON schema for statistical dissemination.

Promoter: Xavier Badosa | Last update: 2011-11-23