JSONP or “JSON with padding” is a JSON extension wherein the name of a callback function is specified as an input argument of the underlying JSON call itself. JSONP makes use of runtime script tag injection.

Source: USOD

JavaScript Object Notation, a simple but powerful format for data. It can describe complex data structures, is highly machine-readable as well as reasonably human-readable, and is independent of platform and programming language, and is therefore a popular format for data interchange between programs and systems. Source: ODH.

Interoperable solutions for European public administrations Programme is a European Commission-funded programme aiming at facilitating transactions among cross-border and/or cross-sector public administrations in Europe and supporting development of digital solutions that enable public administrations, businesses and citizens in Europe to benefit from interoperable cross-border and cross-sector public services. ISA2 is established in 2015 to run from 2016 to 2020, as the follow-up programme to ISA 2010-2015.

The ability of systems to exchange information and use the exchanged information.

Source: EU OD

The European Interoperability framework highlights: organisational interoperability, legal interoperability, semantic interoperability and technical interoperability.

A worldwide network of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to facilitate data transmission and exchange among several billion devices, which are logically linked together by a globally unique address space.

Source: ODH

The term intellectual property rights in the context of open data refers primarily to copyright and related rights, including sui generis forms of protection. The OD Directive does not apply to documents covered by industrial property rights, such as patents and registered designs and trademarks. The Directive neither affects the existence or ownership of intellectual property rights of public sector bodies, nor does it limit the exercise of these rights in any way beyond the boundaries set by this Directive.

The Directive establishing and Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE Directive) enacted in 2007 (2007/2/EC) established an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe to support Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.

The phases through which an information system passes, typically characterized as initiation, development, operation, and termination.

Source: US OD

A discrete set of information resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, transmission, and dissemination of information, in accordance with defined procedures, whether automated or manual.

Source: US OD

The information society is one in which information is the defining feature, unlike the industrial society where steam power and fossil fuels were distinguishing elements. Information society is a concept that responds to the expansion and ubiquity of information. The term has been in use since the 1970s, but has gained in popularity and is now widely used in social and political policy.