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Open data
is
data
that is openly accessible, exploitable, editable and shared by anyone for any purpose, even commercially. Open data is licensed under an
open license
.
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Data is information that is in a machine-readable form. Data can be text, statistics, maps, images, video recordings, music, financial data and other.
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