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Waldo Jaquith, head of the U.S. Open Data Institute, leads off the day at Open Data NJ with a primer on what open data is -- and is not -- and an explanation of why it's important.
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Open Data Is
1. accessible publicly
2. readable by software
3. without cost
4. reusable and redistributable, without restriction
“[T]o provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent and at other points in the States and Territories...and for giving notice on the northern (Great) Lakes and on the seacoast by magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force of storms.”
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METAR KCDW 131653Z AUTO VRB05KT 10SM CLR 19/06 A3023 RMK AO2 SLP240T01890061 TSNO
Open Data is Everywhere
Open Data is Where You Don’t Expect It
Open Data Often Isn’t Where We
Need It
Open Data is the Opposite of OPRA
