would benefit from similar investigation, documentation, and discussion. We have described the possibilities of PDFs in science and highlighted the existing work of CloudTrade, but there are many more examples out there that we haven’t found yet. We suggest that investigating, documenting, and discussing use cases should now become the primary initial objective of the W3C PDF and Open Data Community Group. Additionally, it should be made clear that all data, not just open data, can be considered in the use cases. The aim of this process should be to create a list of well-defined with use-case owners for each. We have started a spreadsheet to gather these use cases, which we will promote from this report and the W3C community group. An example to follow in this regard is the output from the W3C Working Group for CSV on the Web: Use Cases and Requirements. Build on existing government interest for improved PDFs. Our work with PDF for Planners has been done in collaboration with UK government bodies and generated significant interest within UK government departments. In particular we have shared our work with The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). We have discussed our work in detail with the Director of Data Projects at DCLG and with politicians and we were please to see some of these ideas included in the successful manifesto in the 2017 general election, committing to the standards to digitise the planning process”. “set There is a clear desire within DCLG to incorporate much more data within the English planning system. Investigations that they have helped fund on The Future of White Papers make this clear, while recognising the requirement for documents for the current system to work. There is a clear opportunity, proven by our work with PDF for Planners, to promote PDFs as a preferred document format as the English planning system is updated. We should continue to explore this opportunity and others. Funding Our work on this project and in preparing this report was supported financially by The UK Government’s Future Cities Catapult as part of its Future of Planning series, by Adobe, and by The Sponsors of ODILeeds.
would benefit from similar investigation, documentation, and discussion. We have described the possibilities of PDFs in science and highlighted the existing work of CloudTrade, but there are many more examples out there that we haven’t found yet. We suggest that investigating, documenting, and discussing use cases should now become the primary initial objective of the W3C PDF and Open Data Community Group. Additionally, it should be made clear that all data, not just open data, can be considered in the use cases. The aim of this process should be to create a list of well-defined with use-case owners for each. We have started a spreadsheet to gather these use cases, which we will promote from this report and the W3C community group. An example to follow in this regard is the output from the W3C Working Group for CSV on the Web: Use Cases and Requirements. Build on existing government interest for improved PDFs. Our work with PDF for Planners has been done in collaboration with UK government bodies and generated significant interest within UK government departments. In particular we have shared our work with The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). We have discussed our work in detail with the Director of Data Projects at DCLG and with politicians and we were please to see some of these ideas included in the successful manifesto in the 2017 general election, committing to “set the standards to digitise the planning process”. There is a clear desire within DCLG to incorporate much more data within the English planning system. Investigations that they have helped fund on The Future of White Papers make this clear, while recognising the requirement for documents for the current system to work. There is a clear opportunity, proven by our work with PDF for Planners, to promote PDFs as a preferred document format as the English planning system is updated. We should continue to explore this opportunity and others. Funding Our work on this project and in preparing this report was supported financially by The UK Government’s Future Cities Catapult as part of its Future of Planning series, by Adobe, and by The Sponsors of ODILeeds.
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