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The Value of Open Data in your Community
Started on Mar 23, 2012 by Emily Cole
The Akron Digital Media Center and the Akronist located in the Akron-Summit Public Library provides free citizen journalism training and free classes. They offer a series of classes, and have now chosen to make their course curriculum open data and accesible to the public. Wikipedia defines open data as: "the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. The goals of the open data movement are similar to those of other "Open" movements such as open source, open content, and open access."
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The City of New York provides the public with hundreds of sets of public data from the cities agencies and City organizations. Locally the Akron Digital Media Center is an awesome example of providing open data for the cities residents. How do you feel about data and do you feel that it's valuable for both local cities and municipalities to adopt open data policies like NYC?
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Welcome to NYC Open Data This catalog supplies hundreds of sets of public data produced by City agencies and other City organizations. The data sets are now available as APIs and in a variety of machine-readable formats, making it easier than ever to consume City data and better serve New York City's residents, visitors, developer community and all!
Posted Mar 23, 2012