[HN Gopher] Open Data Is Dead ___________________________________________________________________ Open Data Is Dead Author : jasondc Score : 17 points Date : 2023-11-01 19:26 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (databaseengineering.substack.com) (TXT) w3m dump (databaseengineering.substack.com) | PaulHoule wrote: | I wouldn't have considered any of the four bullet points "open | data". I would consider | | https://data.gov/ | | Wikidata and many other things "open". It's my own (partially | true) opinion that open data is downloadable as a data dump, | anything involving an API is like breathing through a straw. | milliams wrote: | None of those things are "Open Data". They might have provided | access to the data via an API, but OSM, Wikipedia etc. are open | data. | | ... | | Ah, it's a veiled advert for "Sort". ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-11-01 23:00 UTC)