open data
Freely accessible records
Open data is information made freely available for anyone to access, use, and redistribute without restrictions.
Governments and organizations publish open data to promote transparency and enable innovation: The city released open data on traffic patterns.
Open data initiatives often include public records, scientific research, and geographic information in machine-readable formats.
- freedom of informationPublic access to state records
- FOIA requestsDemands for government documents
- public recordsOfficially filed, publicly accessible documents
- government transparencyPublic access to official proceedings
- public accessUnrestricted community availability
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- public administrationadministrative law, government agencies, ministries, local government, county government
- Datadatabank, microdata, measurements, statistics, variables
- digital societysocial networks, internet, digital age, internet culture, digital natives
- free accesstoll-free, freeware, public domain, free trial, gratis
- government transparencyFOIA, freedom of information, sunshine laws, public records, FOIA requests
- transparencyopenness, disclosure, clarity, honesty, candor
open dataclassified information
Sensitive, access-restricted material
government secrecy · state secrets · non-disclosure · official secrets
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