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contact name
Contact person’s name for the asset.
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API (source: www.digitalgov.gov/category/code/api/) An Application Programming Interface, or API, is a set of software instructions and standards that allows machine to machine communication—like when [..]
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catalog
A catalog is a collection of datasets. Data.gov has one catalog for all types of datasets at http://catalog.data.gov. The catalog contains both geospatial and non-geospatial datasets.
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ckan
CKAN stands for Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, an open source data management system that is the basis of the Data.gov catalog, as well as the open data catalogs of approximately 50 data hub [..]
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csv
A comma separated value (CSV) file is a computer data file used for implementing the organizational tool of the Comma Separated List. The CSV file is used for the digital storage of data structured in [..]
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data
A value or set of values representing a specific concept or concepts. Data become “information” when analyzed and possibly combined with other data in order to extract meaning and to provide context. [..]
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data extraction tool
Data extraction tools allow a user to select a data basket full of variables and then recode those variables into a form that the user desires. The user can then develop customized displays of any sel [..]
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dataset
A dataset is an organized collection of data. The most basic representation of a dataset is data elements presented in tabular form. Each column represents a particular variable. Each row corresponds [..]
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kml
Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML-based language schema for expressing geographic annotation and visualization of existing or future Web-based, two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth b [..]
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kmz
KML files are very often distributed in KMZ files, which are zipped files with a “.KMZ” extension. When a KMZ file is unzipped, a single “doc.kml” is found along with any overlay and icon images refer [..]
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