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open data
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data that is openly accessible and usable to others
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- industry
- Subclass of
- data
- Part of
- access to knowledge movement
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- hashtag
- opendata
- short name
- open data
- topic has template
- Template:Open data navbox
- Stack Exchange site URL
- opendata.stackexchange.com
- partially coincident with
- open science
- Commons category
- Open data
- topic's main category
- Category:Open data
- P13411
- Aude
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Encyclopedic overview
Open data map Linked open data cloud in August 2014 Clear labelling of the licensing terms is a key component of open data, and icons like the one pictured here are being used for that purpose.
Open data are data that are openly accessible, exploitable, editable and shareable by anyone for any purpose. Open data are generally licensed under an open license.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “open data” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.