Despite a lack of consensus on what open data means, organizations and open source projects are tackling it as we move into the future of computing.

Open Data is data that can freely be used and is made available in a machine-readable format. Statistics Netherlands provides three different types of open data. The OData interfaces (APIs) of ...

An explanation of open data, why it's important and how you can do it yourself.

The Open Data Handbook, a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation, lists a similar definition: Open data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone – subject only, at most, ...

Open data has gained public attention because of its role in training AI image generation models like Stable Diffusion, but its importance extends to research beyond AI. It gives researchers and ...

Open data is data that is published for anyone to use without restriction, which can often be the most effective way to enable collaboration between people and organizations. There are also data ...

Data analyst and writer Jessie Rudd explains some basic concepts behind open data as a force for transparency in government and business.

As significant as our (technology industry) embrace of open source has been, should we also focus more directly on the need for open data? With a rationale, motivation or goal like beating world ...

Recent initiatives have dramatically increased the range of previously “closed” data being made “open” by the government, including data sets on travel, weather and healthcare. Although ...