We all agree however that both such schemas are much preferable to the shareholder value theory, which is both practically and theoretically unsound, and which leads to so many negative results in so many different areas.
Recognizing that simply publishing snapshots of government information is not enough to make it open, we need to improve the quality, accessibility, timeliness, and usability of our data and content through well-defined standards that include the use of machine-readable formats such as web APIs and common metadata tagging schemas.