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Many governments publish open data they produce or commission on official websites to be freely used, reused, or redistributed by anyone. [1] [2] These sites are often created as part of open government initiatives. Some open data sites like CKAN and DKAN are open source data portal solutions where as others like Socrata are proprietary data ...
The open-politics theory, a narrow application of open-source governance, combines aspects of the free software and open-content movements, promoting decision-making methods claimed to be more open, less antagonistic, and more capable of determining what is in the public interest with respect to public policy issues. It takes special care for ...
An open data portal is any online platform which supports users in accessing collections of open data. Typical open data portals present the data of the organization which hosts the portal. Government organizations sometimes host open data portals as a way of meeting their regional freedom of information legal requirements. Another common use ...
The web browser is a powerful OSINT tool that provides access to numerous websites and both open source and proprietary software tools that are either purpose-built for open source information collection or which can be exploited for the purposes of either gathering of open source information or to facilitate analysis and validation to provide ...
A civic hacker may work autonomously and independently from the government but may still coordinate or collaborate with them. For example, in 2008, civic hacker William Entriken created an open-source web application that publicly displayed a comparison of the actual arrival times of Philadelphia’s local SEPTA trains to their scheduled times.
The philosophy behind open data has been long established (for example in the Mertonian tradition of science), but the term "open data" itself is recent, gaining popularity with the rise of the Internet and World Wide Web and, especially, with the launch of open-data government initiatives Data.gov, Data.gov.uk and Data.gov.in.
BIRT is a top-level software project within the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit consortium of software industry vendors and an open source community. The project's stated goals are to address a wide range of reporting needs within a typical application, [ 2 ] ranging from operational or enterprise reporting to multi ...
The following is a list of notable report generator software. Reporting software is used to generate human-readable reports from various data sources. Commercial software