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Decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament of… Article 3

Decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament of… Article 3

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Article 3

Any of the Parliament’s data which are already public may be published as open data. To be considered ‘open’, the data must have the following four characteristics: (a) ‘technical openness’: data and their metadata are offered in machine-readable, open formats; (b) ‘legal openness’: data are subject to an open licence; (c) ‘practical openness’: data are easily discoverable, up to date and directly accessible; (d) ‘social openness’: with the aim to improve data quality and availability, users’ feedback is collected and considered when making data available.

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