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Open Data: Challenges and Opportunities for the Tourism Industry

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Tourism Management, Marketing, and Development

Abstract

Since a famous 2007 meeting coordinated by Tim O’Reilly and Carl Malamud gathering open government advocates in Sebastopol (California), where the general principles of Open Government Data have been defined, the movement has gained significant momentum. The principles define open government data as complete, primary, timely, accessible, machine processable, nondiscriminatory, nonproprietary, and license-free1 (Fioretti, 2010; Ubaldi, 2013).

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Longhi, C., Titz, JB., Viallis, L. (2014). Open Data: Challenges and Opportunities for the Tourism Industry. In: Mariani, M.M., Baggio, R., Buhalis, D., Longhi, C. (eds) Tourism Management, Marketing, and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137354358_4

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