A family of web feed formats (often dubbed Really Simple Syndication) used to publish frequently updated works — such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video — in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a “feed,” “web feed,” or “channel”) includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship.

Source: US OD

CKAN uses this term to denote one of the individual data objects (a file such as a spreadsheet, or an API) in a dataset. Source: ODH

Documents in a digital form, other than scientific publications, which are collected or produced in the course of scientific research activities and are used as evidence in the research process, or are commonly accepted in the research community as necessary to validate research findings and results. Source: OD Directive

A possibility for the user to require the disclosure of the dataset by the public bodies in a machine-readable format suitable for re-use. It is a formal procedure that usually requires the issuing of the formal decision. The decision of the public body is scrutinised by the independent authority or the court.

A percentage of the overall charge, in addition to that needed to recover the eligible costs, not exceeding 5 percentage points above the fixed interest rate of the ECB. Used to calculate costs above marginal costs by the EU Open data Directive.

Source: OD Directive

Data (such as the current location of trains on a network) which is being constantly updated, where a query needs to be against the latest version of the data.

Source: ODH

A use of public sector information usually by third persons for purposes other than initial purposes within the public tasks for which data were originally collected, produced, or disseminated. It is rare that data gathered for a particular purpose does not have other possible uses. Once gathered, for whatever reason, data can be re-used again and again, in ways that were never envisaged when it was collected, provided only that the data-holder makes it available under an open licence to enable such re-use.

A W3C recommendation that adds a set of attribute-level extensions to HTML, XHTML and various XML-based document types for embedding rich metadata within web documents.

A family of international standards for data interchange on the web. RDF is based on the idea of identifying things using web identifiers or HTTP URIs and describing resources in terms of simple properties and property values.

The original data, in machine-readable form, underlying any application, visualisation, published research or interpretation, etc. An expression that refers to data in its original state that has not been processed, aggregated or manipulated in any other way. It is also defined as ‘primary’.

Sources: ODH, EU OD