Publicly-Available Data Base
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An Publicly-Available Data Base is a data base with no valid claimant of private property (that is freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions).
- AKA: Open Data.
- Context:
- It can range from being a Raw Public Database to being a Perturbed Public Dataset.
- It can (often) be associated to an Open License.
- Example(s):
- UCI Database.
- Open Source.
- Publicly-Available Software.
- (much) Government Data.
- an Open KB, such as a Web KB.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Open Source, Data Commons, Open Knowledge, Open Content, Open Access (Publishing).
References
2018
- (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/open_data Retrieved:2018-12-19.
- Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. The goals of the open-source data movement are similar to those of other "open(-source)" movements such as open-source software, hardware, open content, open education, open educational resources, open government, open knowledge, open access, open science, and the open web. Paradoxically, the growth of the open data movement is paralleled by a rise in intellectual property rights. The philosophy behind open data has been long established (for example in the Mertonian tradition of science), but the term "open data" itself is recent, gaining popularity with the rise of the Internet and World Wide Web and, especially, with the launch of open-data government initiatives such as Data.gov, Data.gov.uk and Data.gov.in.
Open data, can also be linked data; when it is, it is linked open data. One of the most important forms of open data is open government data, which is a form of open data created by ruling government institutions. Open government data's importance is borne from it being a part of citizens' everyday lives, down to the most routine/mundane tasks that are seemingly far removed from government.
- Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. The goals of the open-source data movement are similar to those of other "open(-source)" movements such as open-source software, hardware, open content, open education, open educational resources, open government, open knowledge, open access, open science, and the open web. Paradoxically, the growth of the open data movement is paralleled by a rise in intellectual property rights. The philosophy behind open data has been long established (for example in the Mertonian tradition of science), but the term "open data" itself is recent, gaining popularity with the rise of the Internet and World Wide Web and, especially, with the launch of open-data government initiatives such as Data.gov, Data.gov.uk and Data.gov.in.