,gov Forms & Data Standards

In today's edition of Federal Computer Week, Michael Garland suggests 
<https://fcw.com/articles/2020/08/18/comment-garland-put-forms-to-work.aspx?s=fcwdaily_200820&oly_enc_id=>: 
To save billions, let's finally put government forms to work.

His suggestion resonates strongly with me because it parallels one of 
the two suggestions I made <http://ambur.net/xmlwgconception.htm> in 
2000 that prompted the CIO Council to charter the XML CoP.

However, the article fails to note the new direction set forth in the 
OPEN Government Data Act to make all .gov records machine-readable by 
default 
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-gov-data-act-machine-readable-records-owen-ambur/>, 
in conformance with schemas specified by SDOs.  Government forms are an 
obvious set of records (low hanging fruit) with which to begin.

It would be good if OASIS, W3C, and the markup community in general 
could mount a well-coordinated effort to help agencies comply with the 
law.  It would be nice to think it might take less than 20 years.

Owen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/owenambur/