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Sources of open data? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by dropdrip@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm looking for sites that host open data. It'd be nice if they were collaborative projects too, like a site that tracks prices of domestic-groceries that's updated by users. By "open" I don't mean monetarily-free, but rather data that is free from restrictive-licenses. A website that hosts free data, uploaded by its users, with the agreement that all data uploaded then belongs to the entity that hosts it is something I am not looking for. OpenStreetMap is a good example of what I'm looking for, I think... I'm under the impression the data uploaded by the user still belongs to the user. I may be mistaken though.

A cursory search found this website: https://library.bu.edu/bizdata/free-data . I haven't gone through the links on that page yet, but in case I can't find what I'm looking for there I thought I'd also ask users here.

Originally I wanted to find a repository of currency-conversion prices, but then I began to wonder about libre data repositories in general.

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[–] Blazkowicz@hexbear.net 1 points 17 hours ago

You might find your local state authority provides a lot of free/libre datasets for many things under some form of open data initiative. For currency conversion I'm not even sure you could claim proprietary rights to the underlying data. The APIs could be licensed but the underlying information is not really licensable. Currency conversion is so volatile that you will struggle to find user-sourced datasets in the same way as mapping is.

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

https://publicapis.io/

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 1 points 22 hours ago

data.gouv.fr for french stuff.

[–] shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

Does MusicBrainz count?

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

EDSM/Eddn. Hosts a bunch of data on star systems, stations, planets, etc in elite dangerous. You can plug in to the eddn and get unlimited free data updates

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

Fun fact, facts aren't copyrightable so a lot of datasets aren't copyrightable either.