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Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is a sourcing model in which individuals or organisations obtain goods or services from a large, relatively open group of participants.
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Data glossaryOpen Definition
Open Definition
Civic techOpen data
The Open Definition, first released by Open Knowledge in 2005, sets out under what conditions data and content can be called 'open'.
The Open Definition seeks to ensure that openly-licensed data can be combined successfully, avoiding a proliferation of licences and terms of use for open data leading to complexity and incompatibility
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Freedom of Information (FOI)
A requirement in law (e.g. the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in the UK or the FOIA in the US) for public bodies to publish certain information.
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Open data
Open Data
Open Data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions.
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