Creative Commons

Open data

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.

A CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that the author has created. CC provides an author flexibility (for example, they might choose to allow only non-commercial uses of a given work) and protects the people who use or redistribute an author's work from concerns of copyright infringement as long as they abide by the conditions that are specified in the license by which the author distributes the work.

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Data science

Anonymization

Data anonymization is a type of process to remove sensitive information to protect the identity of individuals in datasets.

Technology

API – Application Programming Interface

An API is an interface that defines how, for example, software applications can communicate with each other. APIs allow different software systems to interact and share data.

Open data

Attribution

Attribution means acknowledging the source of data when using or re-publishing it, giving proper credit to the original creators or providers.