glossary

Re-use

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It is rare that data gathered for a particular purpose does not have other possible uses. Happily, data is an infinite resource (see tragedy of the anti-commons); once gathered, for whatever reason, it can be re-used again and again, in ways that were never envisaged when it was collected, provided only that the data-holder makes it available under an open licence to enable such re-use.