Factual
Encyclopedia
Factual, founded in October 2009, is an aggregator and provider of open data
, which it provides access to through web service API
s and reusable, customisable web applications. It is described by its founder, Gil Elbaz as "a platform for anyone to share and mash open data". Factual has datasets about local place information, entertainment and information derived from government sources. Commercial consumers of the datasets include Facebook Places and SpatialMatch.
Factual intends to provide discounts to data consumers that contribute improved data back, in order to encourage crowd sourcing and other collaborative approaches to data creation and curation.
Open Data
Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. The goals of the open data movement are similar to those of other "Open" movements such as open source, open...
, which it provides access to through web service API
Application programming interface
An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...
s and reusable, customisable web applications. It is described by its founder, Gil Elbaz as "a platform for anyone to share and mash open data". Factual has datasets about local place information, entertainment and information derived from government sources. Commercial consumers of the datasets include Facebook Places and SpatialMatch.
Factual intends to provide discounts to data consumers that contribute improved data back, in order to encourage crowd sourcing and other collaborative approaches to data creation and curation.